GeoBio Energy, Inc. today July 14, 2011 announced that it has signed a definitive agreement for the purchase of Lary Archer & Associates, Inc. Archer is head quartered in Weatherford, Texas, approximately 60 miles west of Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport. Archer provides services to the natural gas industry with a large array of specialty trailer mounted equipment, safety devices, mobile-nitrogen production units and flow monitoring equipment. Read more »

Chesapeake Energy Corporation rejected an inaccurate and misleading article in the Sunday, June 26, 2011 edition of the New York Times that accused the company of exaggerating natural gas shale wells’ productivity and industry reserve estimates of future well performance despite numerous available sources verifying the estimates. Read more »

Senators from North Texas helped defeat efforts Wednesday May 25, 2011 to water down legislation that would force the disclosure of natural gas drilling chemicals.

Lawmakers who want mandatory disclosure of chemicals used in hydraulic fracturing thought they'd reached a solid agreement with citizens and industry. The House had passed a bill that Republican Troy Fraser of Horseshoe Bay agreed to sponsor in the Senate calling the disclosure measure a model for the rest of the country. Read more »

East Texas and Northwest Louisiana residents might not realize it, but they have been sitting amid a revolution in the energy industry the past four years.

Steven Holditch, chairman of Texas A&M’s Harold Vance Department of Petroleum Engineering, told people attending the Second Annual East Texas Conference of the Texas Independent Producers and Royalty Owners this past week that the unconventional extraction of energy from deep geological formations such as the Haynesville Shale is on the forefront of using the latest in technology. Read more »