Lessons from the Eagle Ford in Communication CooperationandConservation

摘要

T't's no secret that oil and gas production in the Eagle Ford Shale 1 has changed the Texas economy, generating $61 billion dollars - - and supporting 116,000 jobs just in 2012. The Eagle Ford is a 50-mile wide by 400-mile wide formation running fromSouth Texasto the northeast, stretching from Webb and Maverick counties on the western border to Grimes, Madison and Leon counties on the eastern border.New technology, including horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing, has allowed energy companies to tap into oil and gas reserves that were previously considered unrecoverable. The technological progress, though, has come with an impact on the landscape unlike any other experienced by landowners in the long history of energy development in Texas.