What is the Eagle Ford Shale? ^55.2%

StateImpact Texas - By Huma Munir, Dylan Baddour - 12/6/2025, 8:11 AM

Background What is the Eagle Ford Shale? The Eagle Ford Shale is a South Texas geological formation with a large amount of oil and natural gas. It’s about 50 miles wide, 400 miles long, on average 250 feet thick and buried between 4,000 and 12,000 feet below the surface of the Earth, reaching from the Mexican border into East Texas... more