It's one thing to drill a well on a remote plain 40 miles from the nearest town or ranch gate.It's quite another to drill in a suburban backyard.Last year Devon Energy Corp.drilled 200 wells in the buzzing Barnett Shale play around Fort Worth,Texas.The play is attracting a great deal of industry interest,new players-and newspaper copy in Fort Worth- because it has become the largest gas play in Texas,topping 1 billion cubic feet of production daily.
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机译：在距离最近的城镇或牧场大门40英里的偏远平原上钻一口井是一回事，在郊区的后院里钻探井是另一回事。去年，德文能源公司（Devon Energy Corp.）在热闹的巴尼特页岩（Barnett Shale）的沃思堡（Fort Worth）上钻了200口井，得克萨斯州。该气藏引起了业界的极大兴趣，新的球员和沃斯堡报刊都在复制，因为它已成为德克萨斯州最大的天然气藏，日产量超过10亿立方英尺。
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