An unnamed new player has bought up acreage in Louisiana’s portion of the Austin Chalk formation, as speculation about an onshore drilling resurgence in the play continues. Amelia Resources LLC, a New ...

Interest in Washington County's Austin Chalk formation has ticked up ever so slightly over the past year. Interest in the South Texas' Austin Chalk grew over the last two weeks with five applications ...

Houston-based Marathon Oil has confirmed it has a position in Louisiana’s Austin Chalk play, making it one of several large industry players exploring the formation. Marathon, in its first-quarter ...

Houston-based drilling giant ConocoPhillips is making a play in Louisiana’s portion of the Austin Chalk formation, raising the prospect of a resurgence of onshore drilling activity in the state.

JOURDANTON — In the middle of miles of mesquite, a drilling rig pokes above the bright green treeline, searching for oil in a rock drillers have circled back to for decades. The rig working for ...

A new geological map of the Yorkshire Wolds will provide crucial data that could help in protecting water supplies, experts ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract AbstractBasin and Range extensional structures in Trans-Pecos Texas have been interpreted to be strongly influenced by preexisting structures, ...

Lucas has completed the Rainey Unit No.1H well in Gonzales County, Texas as a pumping horizontal oil well in the Austin Chalk formation. The well tested 107 barrels of oil per day (bopd) and 36 ...

New technology applications are breaking records in the Austin Chalk. Somewhere down the line, someone coined the phrase, “Big oilfields only get bigger.” Now an adage, the observation was made when ...

The chalk you used as a kid may have been made from the skeletons of ancient plankton, compressed into rock over millions of years. While slightly unsettling, science writer Ferris Jabr pointed out on ...