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New technology to allow for more oil and gas to be acquired

Ability to acquire more low-noise seismic data proved Mar 23, 2011 By OGJ editors HOUSTON, Mar. 23 — Royal Dutch Shell PLC and HP claimed a breakthrough in the capability of jointly developed inertial sensing technology to shoot and record seismic data at much higher sensitivity and at ultralow frequencies. The onshore wireless seismic acquisition [...]

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Free GIS and the Energy Industry

GIS (Geographic Information System) is the wave of the future who’s time in now here. Everyone who’s on an operation level in the oil field dealing with placement of wells, pipelines, or other facilities should learn some basic GIS. While there are some very expensive programs out there like Landmark that run over $12,000 all [...]

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US move to increase national royalty rates will drive more onshore drilling

This will have the effect of shifting more drilling onshore on private lands.  The effect will be nominal, but we are likely to see a slight increase in onshore drilling.   http://www.reuters.com/article/2009/03/24/us-salazar-oil-royalties-sb-idUSTRE52N6RW20090324   “(Reuters) – The Obama administration will decide later this year whether to raise the royalty rates energy companies would pay on the [...]

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Why mineral rights buyers love the tax man

Every year there are two times when the average household have extraordinary cash outflows. That would be tax time and Christmas. Well guess which one is now? That is right. It it tax time and that means a statistically higher number of mineral owners will be willing to sell. But wait, there’s more. Much more. [...]

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Brewing Backlash on the Oil and Gas Sector favors Mineral Rights

Clearly this administration is hostile to the O&G sector, but they have targeted the working interest owners far more than the royalty owners. It goes to reason that if one was determined to stay in the O&G arena, royalty interests will be a far better investment in this political climate. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123566872495184681.html

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Blackbeard Data Services Newsletters

Blackbeard Data Services is consistently trying to keep you informed of new information in the O&G industry.  We send out quarterly newsletters with various interesting information that we believe you will find helpful and insightful.  Please take a look at the links below of the past two installments.  We also have a sign up page [...]

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Eagle Ford Shale Packages: Available Now

We are now offering special data packages for the Eagle Ford Shale area. Some currently producing counties included in our packages are: Atascosa County TX Bee County TX Dewitt County TX Dimmitt County TX Frio County TX Gonzales County TX Karnes County TX LaSalle County TX Lavaca County TX Live Oak County TX Maverick County [...]

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Arkansas counties now available!

Blackbeard Data Services is having an exciting summer season.   In addition to the 2010 Texas counties data we have already acquired, we now have the ability to acquire Arkansas data and are pleased to assist your business with their data needs.  We are able to get various counties, including some that can be helpful [...]

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Video added on How Much to Pay for Mineral Rights

The question that we keep hearing, is “How Much?” Here is what we know about the industry and what they are paying for Mineral rights.

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New 2010 counties added

We’ve added 30 new counties in the last few days. That data will be available online by next week.

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