Two wells in northwestern New Mexico are highest producing in 20 years for San Juan Basin A project that will drill the first oil and gas wells in La Plata County targeting the Mancos Shale formation ...

Mat saltbush is not a glamorous, attractive plant, but it has the distinction of filling a salty shale environment where no other plant can live Plant communities are usually nicknamed for the most ...

Amid increasing buzz about the potential for developing natural gas locally in the Mancos shale formation, a local oil and gas industry representative recently offered one of the most detailed visions ...

FORT WORTH, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--TXO Partners, L.P. (NYSE: TXO) is designed as a natural resources production company committed to distributing ongoing cash returns while delivering long-term value ...

Texas-based Swift Energy isn’t the only company chasing the lure of the Mancos Shale in La Plata County. The Southern Ute Indian Tribe-owned Red Willow Production Co. drilled one well into the Mancos ...

BP made a potentially groundbreaking discovery in New Mexico, which could open up a new area for shale gas development. BP was drilling in a little-known area in northern New Mexico, in a place called ...

Federal geologists plan to drill a core sample near Delta to assess the potential of a shale formation for oil and gas development. The Bureau of Land Management has approved a proposal by the U.S.

The plan considered shale development, but officials determined it was not technically feasible and did not further analyze it. After noticing growing interest in the Mancos Shale, BLM announced last ...

The Mancos shale of the Piceance basin in Colorado holds mean undiscovered, technically recoverable resources of 66 tcf of shale natural gas, 74 million bbl of shale oil, and 45 million bbl of NGLs, ...

A new estimate from the U.S. Geological Survey finds that Colorado could actually hold 40 times more natural gas than previously expected. The so-called Mancos Shale formation holds an estimated 66.3 ...

Historically, this northwest region of New Mexico has been known as a dry gas play but Encana became the first to use horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracking in the Mancos formation. The majority ...