ALPINE HIGH

摘要

In a 2006 paper, Denver-based consulting firm The Discovery Group Inc. reported that the Barnett Shale potential of the southern Delaware Basin may contain 800 trillion cubic feet (Tcf) of gas across a 12,000-square-mile area. Bob Cluff, the firm's late founder, said that "Reeves County is the gas-in-place sweet spot." At the time, at least a dozen operators were examining the Barnett and underlying Woodford Shale's potential in the heat of horizontal Barnett success in the Fort Worth Basin. Soon, many turned their capex to other promising unconventional-resource plays, however: the Bakken, Marcellus, Haynesville and Eagle Ford.