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These Three Companies Will Increase Drilling & Completion Over The Next 3 Year

These Three Companies Will Increase Drilling & Completion Over The Next 3 Year

In the span of fifteen months, three Japanese energy companies committed more than $10.3 billion to U.S. natural gas production assets — a buying spree that has transferred…

Diversified Energy Striking While the Iron is Hot in East Texas

Diversified Energy Striking While the Iron is Hot in East Texas

Transaction Summary Diversified Energy has entered into a definitive purchase and sale agreement to acquire high-working interest, natural gas producing assets in East Texas from Sheridan Production for…

Diversified Energy Extends East Texs Footprint in $245MM Sheridan Deal

Premium content Diversified Energy Extends East Texs Footprint in $245MM Sheridan Deal

Diversified Energy Company executed a purchase and sale agreement to acquire high-working-interest natural gas properties and related facilities in East Texas from Sheridan Production for $245 million in…

Mitsubishi to Buy Aethon for ~$5.2B, Taking Scaled Haynesville Gas Platform

Mitsubishi to Buy Aethon for ~$5.2B, Taking Scaled Haynesville Gas Platform

Mitsubishi Corporation has agreed to acquire Aethon (Aethon III LLC, Aethon United LP and related entities) for a total equity investment of approximately $5.2 billion, delivering Mitsubishi a…

Mitsubishi’s Strategic Entry into U.S. Shale with Aethon’s Haynesville Platforms

Premium content Mitsubishi’s Strategic Entry into U.S. Shale with Aethon’s Haynesville Platforms

FieldDetails Announcement Date January 16, 2026 — Mitsubishi Corporation announces agreement to acquire Aethon Energy’s Haynesville assets. Buyer Mitsubishi Corporation (MC) (via U.S. affiliates). Seller(s) Aethon Energy Management…

Amplify Exits Haynesville and Cotton Valley

Amplify Exits Haynesville and Cotton Valley

Amplify Energy announced a series of transactions that will result in a complete exit from its interests in East Texas for total anticipated combined consideration of $127.5 million.…

JERA To Buy Haynesville Asset For $1.5 Billion

Premium content JERA To Buy Haynesville Asset For $1.5 Billion

Japan’s largest power generator, JERA Co., Inc., moved deeper into U.S. upstream natural gas with a $1.5 billion acquisition of the South Mansfield asset in the Haynesville Shale,…

From Hedge Funds to Supermajors: Everyone Wants Hub-Linked Gas

From Hedge Funds to Supermajors: Everyone Wants Hub-Linked Gas

TotalEnergies has signed a deal to acquire a 49% non-operated interest in Continental Resources’ Anadarko Basin natural-gas assets in Oklahoma—low-cost, long-plateau rock tied into existing midstream and well…

Comstock to Acquire Assets from Ovation Energy For $62.5 Million

Comstock to Acquire Assets from Ovation Energy For $62.5 Million

Comstock Resources agreed to acquire substantially all of the assets of Ovation Energy, L.P. for $62.5 million, expanding its producing footprint across multiple U.S. natural gas basins. The…

Gas Players : A Comparative Analsysis

Gas Players : A Comparative Analsysis

As part of our Operator Bits series, we decided to take a look at some gas players. Expand Energy, (Haynesville, Marcellus), EQT (Marcellus) , CNX (Marcellus/Utica), Comstock) Here's…

Haynesville Shale Top Operators (Undrilled Permits)

Company Last 12 Months
Aethon Energy 27
Silver Hill Energy Partners LLC 24
Rfe Operating, LLC 21
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Haynesville Shale Drilling Permits Trends (Last 24 Months)

Haynesville Shale Well Completion Trend

Haynesville Shale Map

Haynesville Shale Rig Data: August 7, 2026

Haynesville Shale Overview

Sandwiched between the also unconventional Cotton Valley, Bossier and Smackover formations, the Haynesville Shale is one of the most notable plays along the U.S. Gulf Coast. In addition to its overall size, the Haynesville is known for its high porosities. That makes directional drilling and hydraulic fracturing popular avenues for tapping into its gas reserves.

Geology

The Upper Jurassic (Kimmeridgian to Lower Tithonian) Haynesville and Bossier Shales of East Texas and northwest Louisiana are currently one of the most important shale-gas plays in North America, having high IPs, steep decline…

Haynesville Shale Mergers & Acquisitions

Haynesville Shale Transactions By Quarter ($MM)