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Fayetteville Shale
BP Buys Fayetteville Shale Assets
September 4, 2008 | Arkansas News Bureau

BP America is buying a 25% stake in the Fayetteville Shale holdings of Chesapeake Energy in Arkansas for $1.9 billion. The Fayetteville Shale is a deep natural gas-bearing rock unit that has recently been made productive by the technologies of horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing.

More on the geology of the Fayetteville Shale. Fayetteville Shale news.

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