Crystal Clear View Of Chalk Formation. ScienceDaily. Retrieved May 18, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2009 / 01 / 090123101201.htm. Max-Planck-Gesellschaft.

A recent estimate by the USGS puts the total amount of undiscovered but recoverable barrels of Austin Chalk oil at 6.9 billion. The U.S. consumed 7.5 billion barrels in 2019.

Unlike the Chalk, however, this formation had received scant attention until October 2008, when Petrohawk announced its initial discovery well in La Salle County. The well, ...

The Austin Chalk sits 800 feet to 1,200 feet above the Tuscaloosa Marine Shale — another type of formation that had great prospects earlier this decade until oil prices started tumbling in 2014 ...

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 ...

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.

ANY ONE travelling from London to the South Coast may see how the gentle southerly inclination of the chalk, which has carried it under the Tertiary beds, changes on the south side of the trough ...