What counties are in the Eagle Ford Shale?
Significant development of the Eagle Ford Shale is found in the following South Texas counties:
- LaSalle County TX.
- Lavaca County TX.
- Live Oak County TX.
- Maverick County TX.
- McMullen County TX.
- Webb County TX.
- Wilson County TX.
- Zavala County TX.
Where is Eagle Ford located?
Eagle Ford Shale Overview The play is located in South Texas and produces from various depths between 4,000 and 14,000 feet. The EFS takes its name from the town of Eagle Ford Texas where the shale outcrops at the surface in clay form.
Who owns Eagle Ford?
SilverBow Resources Inc., Houston, has agreed to acquire assets in the Eagle Ford shale in South Texas from an undisclosed seller, expanding the company’s gas portfolio in the Western Eagle Ford and adding oil acreage in three new counties.
Where is the Eagle Ford play in Texas?
EIA is adding and updating geologic information and maps of the major tight oil and shale gas plays. This document outlines updated information and maps for the Eagle Ford play in southwest Texas.
Where are the core counties of the Eagle Ford Shale?
Visit the Eagle Ford Shale Geology page to read more. Our Eagle Ford Shale Counties section provides a list and detail on the 30 counties where the EFS is or has been targeted. The core counties include an area that stretches from north of Gonzales down to Webb County at the Texas-Mexican border.
Where is the Eagle Ford Formation in Texas?
The Eagle Ford formation is thickest in the Maverick Basin and thins to a minimum in the San Marcos Arch region. The Eagle Ford formation continues into the southwest part of the East Texas Basin as a combination of the Maness and Eagle Ford Group facies and grades into coarser sandstone units of Woodbine to the east (Hentz and Ruppel, 2011).
Where is the northern boundary of the Eagle Ford play?
The northern boundary of the Eagle Ford Play is defined according to where the oil window ends and the immature area begins, according to a study that used thermal modeling calibrated to published vitrinite reflectance (%Ro) data (Cardneaux, 2012).