SHALE ENERGY HAYNESVILLE LEADS THE HERD IN SHALE GAS PRODUCTION

摘要

There is no question that sustained low prices for natural gas have taken their toll on the Haynes-ville shale play of northwestern Louisiana and East Texas. The number of rigs working in the Haynes-ville has fallen steadily during the past 15 months, and there are reasons to be concerned that activity could continue falling off. Producers have largely completed the drilling needed to hold onto their expensive leases in the play, and two attractive, liquids-rich shale targets elsewhere in Louisiana have been attracting recent attention: the Tuscaloosa marine shale in the middle of the state and the Brown Dense or Lower Smackover shale to the north. Judging from the rapid pace of development in South Texas' liquids-rich Eagle Ford shale, these two new prospects could soon be seriously competing for rigs with the dry-gas Haynesville.