Historically, this northwest region of New Mexico has been known as a dry gas play but Encana became the first to use horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracking in the Mancos formation. The majority ...

RIFLE — The U.S. Geological Survey could revisit its local Mancos shale gas estimate based on industry drilling results in coming years, according to a geologist for the agency who says such estimates ...

BP made a potentially groundbreaking discovery in New Mexico, which could open up a new area for shale gas development. BP was drilling in a little-known area in northern New Mexico, in a place called ...

The U.S. Geological Survey recently revised its estimate of the undiscovered, technically recoverable Mancos shale resource in northwest Colorado's Piceance Basin sharply upward, to 66.3 trillion ...

An oil play is under way on the eastern Chaco slope of the San Juan basin in northwestern New Mexico, where 17 zones from 400 ft to 4,000 ft have oil potential, including unconventional oil from the ...

Colorado’s Mancos formation has just received new estimates that says it contains significantly more shale natural gas than previous estimates foretold, according to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).

(Bloomberg) -- While other natural gas drillers are paying a premium for acreage in prized U.S. shale formations across Texas and Pennsylvania, BP Plc may have just found a gem in a largely ignored ...

BP started producing from a gas well in New Mexico’s Mancos shale that could turn out to be a “significant new source of U.S. natural gas supply.” While other natural gas drillers are paying a premium ...