Interest intensifies in potential new gas shale play in West Texas

摘要

In the dusty,windblown little West Texas farm town of Floydada,somewhere between Lubbock and Amarillo,cautious whispers of wealth waft in the air.Long bypassed by the petroleum fortunes that enrich the rest of Texas,the rugged and rolling desert prairie that stretches for endless miles around this town of 4,000 people has been nothing but a bone yard of failed hopes for wildcatters over the years.