Anadarko Sees Mega-Projects, Shale Gas Driving Strong Growth

Anadarko Petroleum has set a 2010 capital pending plan of $5.3 billion to $5.6 billion, and expects an average annual production growth rate of 7% to 9% during the next four years.
Production growth will be driven by development of the company’s shale gas holdings in the onshore US and several oil-weighted, deepwater [...]

North American Players Looking at Shale Gas Opportunities in Europe

The same technology that unleashed a natural gas bonanza in North America over the past decade has the potential to transform the European energy industry.
“A year or two from now, the activity over in Europe is going to be absolutely frenetic, and so you’ve got to get in there early,” said Craig Steinke, executive chairman [...]

Mitsui takes big bet on Shale Gas

Anadarko Petroleum has agreed a $1.4bn deal with Mitsui & Co. the Japanese trading and investment group, to sell a minority stake in its Marcellus Shale natural gas project in Pennsylvania.
The deal announced on Tuesday will give Mitsui control of 32.5 per cent of Anadarko’s shale-gas assets in the state, where most of the 250,000 [...]

Investing in natural gas is like picking fruit

According to a recent report by Natural Gas Intelligence, U.S. natural gas available for production “has jumped 58% in the past four years, driven by improved drilling techniques and the discovery of huge shale fields in Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas and Pennsylvania, according to a report issued Thursday by the nonprofit Potential Gas Committee (PGC).”
The report [...]

Why Is the Rig Count Rising ??

A blog post called, “Drill Bits: Rig Count Picks Up Again. Why?” on the Wall Street Journal website by Ben Casselman speculates on why the number of active rigs is up for the third week in a row.
Drill Bits: Rig Count Picks Up Again. Why?
Sure, oil prices aren’t anywhere close to last year’s record, [...]