A little more than five years past its peak activity, the Barnett rig count now sits at about 25 and the rush to tight liquids plays has switched attention and capital to places such as the Eagle Ford shale and the Permian basin.
However, far from being in its sunset years, Barnett may more accurately show the future of US shale plays when companies control vast swaths of acreage and have solved many of the mysteries needed to produce hydrocarbons as efficiently as possible.
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