US shale gas and oil players are facing unprecedented financial distress,while a growing chorus is predicting significant bankruptcies in the sector-but what happens to their producing assets is less clear.Some observers see those assets simply fading away as investors recognize they are unlikely to be able to profit from wells that barely made money when prices were far higher than today.But others claim that while rocks still hold oil and gas resources,new companies with less debt and more efficient operations will swoop in to reanimate the multiheaded shale monster that gobbled up market share from the rest of the global oil and gas industry over the past five years.
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