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and arguably “more famous” companies and there are only a few of them with reasonably large positions (see Top 10 table below). Australia is represented by a grand total of eight companies other than BHP. Six of these are present in the Eagle Ford, holding roughly 16% of Australian-controlled acreage in the play (~64,000 acres), and only one – Aurora – has a market cap of over US$1 billion, standing the countries representatives in stark contrast to their Chinese and Indian counterparts.
Source: Evaluate Energy Shale Play Database
This report was created using Evaluate Energy’s North American shale play database. The shale play database has a comprehensive list of publicly available company acreage holdings, capex budgets, drilling plans and average well costs, as well as play-related metrics such as production per day and undeveloped land cost per acre. Evaluate Energy provides clients with efficient data solutions to oil and gas company analysis, with its 20+ years of financial and operating data, and its