A Texas entrepreneur is tapping the popularity of the Barnett Shale by peddling bottles of its hard rock to folks who want their own piece of the prolific US gas play. But buyers beware: what consumers are getting is literally clumps of spent rock, the result of drilling into the shale with not a molecule of commercial gas.
However, that hasn't stopped Texas-based Barnett Shale Bottlers from offering bottles of the unconventional, but iconic rock of Texas energy investment for $11.95