Anadarko's properties in the Southern & Appalachia region are located primarily in Texas, Louisiana, Kansas, Ohio and Pennsylvania and are focused on finding and developing both natural gas and liquids from shales, tight sands and fractured-reservoir plays. Anadarko holds interest in more than 700,000 net fairway acres in shale plays throughout the Southern region. Anadarko's shales are located in the Marcellus play in north-central Pennsylvania, the Eagleford/Pearsall plays in southwest Texas, the Haynesville play in East Texas and western Louisiana, and the Utica Shale play in central Ohio. Anadarko also has active tight-gas and/or fractured-reservoir operations in the Bossier, Haley, Carthage, Chalk, South Texas and Ozona areas in Texas, and the Hugoton area in southern Kansas.
View Anadarko's quarterly operations report and investor presentations for our most recent activity in the U.S. Southern region.
Pennsylvania
Bringing our recognized environmental programs and best practices to Pennsylvania, Anadarko holds approximately 760,000 gross acres in the Marcellus Shale. Increased activity in the Marcellus play brings economic activity to the Commonwealth and provides the company with net risked resources of more than 6 trillion cubic feet of natural gas equivalent -- equating to a 1 billion barrel field.
Across Anadarko's operating areas in the U.S. onshore, the company requires that its wells be constructed using multiple layers of steel pipe and cement as a means to protect groundwater. In the Marcellus, Anadarko carries this policy a step further by adding another layer of steel pipe and cement as an added measure of protection. You can read more about the water-management and conservation strategies in place in Pennsylvania in the safeguarding water page of our Web site, under the U.S. Natural Gas Opportunity section.
Marcellus Fact Sheet (PDF)
South Texas and Hugoton
Other areas in the Southern region include the Ozona properties and the liquids-rich Eagleford Shale in the Maverick Basin. Anadarko holds approximately 200,000 net acres and a strategic position in the Maverick Basin. The company is among the largest producers in the basin where a high-liquids component in the Eagleford significantly enhances the value of the product stream. The company also remains active in the Hugoton area of southern Kansas, a long-life, slow-decline asset with opportunity for future activity.
Eagleford Fact Sheet (PDF)
East Texas
Production and development activities at Anadarko's properties in East Texas are concentrated in the Bossier and Carthage areas, as well as the Haynesville Shale. Anadarko is continuing its Cotton Valley infill and pilot horizontal drilling programs in the Carthage area. Anadarko's East Texas Chalk activity is focused on horizontal drilling in Tyler and Jasper counties. In the Haynesville, Anadarko holds approximately 80,000 net acres, the vast majority of which is held by production.
Anadarko's operations in West Texas are concentrated in the Delaware and Permian Basin where the company is focused on increasing activity in the liquids-rich Bone Spring play and testing opportunities in the Avalon Shale and Wolfcamp formation, as well as ongoing activity in the tight-gas play of the Haley field.