The Eagle Ford shale currently supports more than 270 active drilling rigs and is considered one of the nation’s premier unconventional plays. Where other plays only have dry gas, the diverse hydrocarbon richness of the Eagle Ford shale is a gift that keeps giving.

“In May we reached about 800,000 boe/d from a little over 2,900 wells, which is 20% of the U.S. unconventional production and 7% of U.S. unconventional wells,” said Allen Gilmer, co-founder, chairman, and CEO of Drillinginfo.com.

In addition, as a tight shale formation play, the Eagle ...