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A week of sharp price swings across asset classes was dominated by the Nikkei‘s biggest one-day drop in two years and growing uncertainty about Fed policy
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Posted: 2013-02-11, 12:30PM PSTEdited: 2013-02-11, 12:30PM PSTemail to a friendP&G buoyed by return of Lafley
A.G. Lafley first became P&G’s chief in 2000 after his predecessor tried to drive through a restructuring plan that had brought chaos and a flurry of profit warnings
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Posting ID: 3610238581Posted: 2013-02-11, 12:34PM PSTEdited: 2013-02-11, 12:34PM PSTemail to a friendExcitement grows for another South Texas shale
A natural gas drilling site in the Eagle Ford Shale. (Jake Lacey/Houston Chronicle file photo)SAN ANTONIO — The Eagle Ford Shale is a behemoth oil and gas field in both size and profits.
But it’s not the only shale in South Texas.
Oil and gas companies are hunting hydrocarbons in several other geologic formations including the Pearsall Shale, which so far has 22 producing wells and is driving some mineral leasing in the region.
“It’s early days. The Pearsall is emerging,” said Peggy Williams, editorial director with Hart Energy. “People are working on it and it could develop into something, but it’s not as fully commercial as the Eagle Ford is at this point.”
The Eagle Ford is a 50-mile-wide swath of shale that runs from the Mexican border to East Texas, with more than 5,400 wells permitted so far. It appears to be the mother lode — the largest and most consistent South Texas formation holding the most oil and gas.
But the Pearsall Shale is the rock formation that many say is most like the Eagle Ford. It’s deeper and older than the Eagle Ford, but was also deposited in the Cretaceous Period when much of Texas was covered by a shallow sea.
Eaglebine: ‘The next thing’ for drilling companies
It was long assumed that the Pearsall contained only natural gas until Oklahoma-based Cheyenne Petroleum Co. drilled a Pearsall well in 2011 that produced crude oil. So, like the Eagle Ford, the Pearsall also has “windows” where more oil or more gas can be produced.
The research firm Drillinginfo.com, which tracks wells around the world, has identified 22 wells with Pearsall production — mostly natural gas producers in Dimmit and Maverick counties that were drilled in 2010 and 2011.
But along the county lines in northeastern La Salle and southeastern Frio counties, Pearsall wells have produced more oil.
With much of South Texas tied up in Eagle Ford mineral leases, David Roth, an attorney who heads the energy team at Cox Smith in San Antonio, said the Pearsall is one geologic formation where leases are still being hammered out.
“I would say new leasing south of San Antonio is all Pearsall,” Roth said. “There’s just not a lot of acreage trading hands. There’s not enough open acreage.”
But leases that target the Pearsall can get complicated.
Some mineral leases have depth-severance provisions. After a period of time, a company loses the right to drill anything deeper than has already been produced. That has opened up some ability for dual leases on one piece of land — one company targeting the Eagle Ford, another targeting the deeper Pearsall.
But many leases don’t have a depth-severance clause, and so ongoing drilling in the Eagle Ford “holds” the Pearsall indefinitely for the company operating there.
“A lot of people leased all depths, and there’s a lot of Pearsall that’s sitting there because of this very normal business practice: If I’m an oil company (and) I’m making money in the Eagle Ford, I’m going to keep spending money in the Eagle Ford,” Roth said.
That said, some Pearsall wells have been making around 600 barrels a day, a result that Roth noted companies will take “all day long.”
“It seems that some significant production will come from Pearsall,” he said.
The Houston-based Cabot Oil & Gas Corp. has 43 producing Eagle Ford wells, but plans to drill 15 Pearsall wells this year.
Cline Shale: West Texas shale could dwarf Eagle Ford
In an earnings call last week with analysts, Cabot executives said that the 30-day average production rate for its six Pearsall wells was around 600 barrels of oil equivalent daily, which includes a mix of crude oil and natural gas liquids such as propane and butane. About half of those barrels were crude oil.
Dan Dinges, chairman, CEO and president of Cabot, said during the call, “The Pearsall, it’s still a young play and remains a science project for us.”
Dinges stopped short of giving a range for how much oil it might ultimately recover from its 71,000 Pearsall Shale acres, located in the “Four Corners” area where Frio, Atascosa, La Salle and McMullen counties meet.
Several other companies are also looking at the Pearsall. Magnum Hunter and Marathon Oil Corp. are drilling a Pearsall well in Atascosa County. Goodrich Petroleum Corp. has said it’s monitoring Pearsall wells and has tentative plans to drill a well there later this year. Sanchez Energy Corp. has said it is mapping the Pearsall and thinks a large portion of its Eagle Ford acreage could have Pearsall potential.
But the costs of a Pearsall well — around $10 million by Cabot’s estimates (which include the cost of science) — and the fact that companies have to pass through the Eagle Ford to get there, mean that companies drilling the Pearsall must really want to. Companies must drill about 10,000 feet down and then make a horizontal turn into the formation.
“They’re not a casual investment,” Williams of Hart Energy said. “In this particular area, early results are encouraging.”
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Railroad Commission approves well integrity rules
Sanchez Energy's Prost A1H well in Fayette County, in the Eagle Ford Shale. (Sanchez Energy)The Texas Railroad Commission adopted long-awaited changes to its rules for the construction of oil and gas wells Friday, saying its actions showed the value of allowing the state to regulate the industry.
The changes clarify standards for drilling, casing and cementing of wells and require that the commission be notified of any failed pressure test. The new rules take effect Jan. 1.
The unanimous vote came as legislators consider whether the agency, which regulates oil and gas drilling and production in Texas, should be disbanded after efforts to institute recommendations made by the Sunset Advisory Commission failed to win approval in the House of Representatives.
The proposals approved Friday, amendments to a section of the state’s regulations known as Rule 13, had been under discussion for months.
Commission Chairman Barry Smitherman suggested the effort “illustrates the importance of allowing state regulators, not the federal government, to regulate our booming oil and gas industry.”
The new rules were praised by the Texas Oil & Gas Association, which represents the industry.
“As technology used in oil and natural gas production evolves and improves, the Texas Railroad Commission is wise to examine rules related to well integrity,” Deb Hastings, executive vice president of the association said in a statement. “Through the Railroad Commission’s leadership, Texas is once again setting the national standard in crafting energy policy for the 21st century.”
Unlikely alliance: Political foes plea for more time on federal fracturing rule
Environmentalists have been watching, too.
“I think generally, we’re pleased,” Cyrus Reed, conservation director for the Lone Star chapter of the Sierra Club, said after the approval.
He said he was disappointed that some technical specifications had been changed from the commission’s original proposal but noted that the requirements hadn’t been updated in decades.
“It’s a really important thing,” he said. “They make some important changes.”
The changes to Rule 13 were anxiously awaited by the industry.
They include:
For wells undergoing hydraulic fracturing, operators will be required to pressure test well casings to the maximum pressure expected and to notify the commission of a failed test.Operations must be suspended if monitoring indicates a potential down-hole casing leak.
Cementing will be required across and above all zones permitted for injection. Requirements for well control and blowout preventers were updated.The proposals had been under discussion even as the agency and its three commissioners were swept up in the political ramifications of its review by legislators under the Sunset process.
The Sunset Advisory Commission regularly reviews state agencies to determine if they are still needed and, if so, what changes might be called for. Recommended changes for the Railroad Commission ranged from the seemingly benign — changing its name to the Texas Energy Resources Commission to better reflect its mission — to a controversial proposal limiting when, and from whom, the three elected commissioners could collect campaign contributions. It also would have required them to resign from the commission before running for another office.
Legislation to update the Railroad Commission failed to pass in both the 2011 session and again this year.
Agencies not approved through the Sunset process could be allowed to die but are generally reauthorized.
As of Friday evening, the commission wasn’t included in a safety-net bill intended to extend it for at least another two years, and Rep. Dennis Bonnen, R-Angleton, sponsor of the House bill that would have overhauled the agency, said he wasn’t inclined to make a motion to add it in a conference committee.
“The agency shouldn’t get to go through Sunset another time,” he said. “If you can’t do it in two times, and the reason is significant lobbying by the agency opposed to doing anything differently, maybe the goal was to have the agency go away.”
A conference committee is also meeting on an ethics bill that includes a “resign to run” provision for railroad commissioners, to prevent them from using their position to build a campaign account for another office. Some observers think passage of that provision might lead lawmakers to revive the agency by including it in the sunset schedule.
Hollywood insiders among Hulu suitors
Bidding for Hulu kicked off more than a month ago when Peter Chernin made a formal $500m offer
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Amazon plans giant biosphere in Seattle
Mixed public reaction to proposal to construct spherical greenhouses where the online retailer’s staff will work surrounded by shrubbery and trees
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Apple accused of avoiding billions in taxes
The Senate report said Apple’s use of loopholes for international profits allowed it to save tax on $44bn in ‘otherwise taxable offshore income’
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