Operational Updates
A Look Inside Forest Oil's Eagle Ford Operations
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After Forest Oil reported the signing of an Eagle Ford JV deal with Schlumberger, the announcement quickly became one of the biggest headlines of the month.
The following details Forest Oil's Eagle Ford portfolio as well as its plans to optimize the position.
Forest has approximately 86,000 net acres in the Eagle Ford Shale, primarily located in Gonzales County in South Texas. Forest commenced its Eagle Ford Shale development program in late-2010 and expanded the program during 2011 to focus on the optimization of development operations.
This optimization included taking core samples, acquiring 3-D seismic, utilizing micro-seismic during well completions, and testing different sections of the Eagle Ford Shale, all with the goal of finding the optimal section in which to land the lateral…
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