DUG Haynesville conference tracks business opportunities The earliest U.S. shale-gas plays (the Barnett, Haynesville and Fayetteville) paid a hefty price for being first to prove that, yes, wells can be completed in shale. Producers in shale basins rich in natural gas led the way in developing the effective one-two punch of horizontal drilling plus multi-stage fracturing. Yet their success ultimately brought too much gas to market too fast - and overwhelmed demand. Activity in the early plays nearly ground to a halt as drillers focused on the prolific "Beast in the East" - the Marcellus.
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