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What is the Barnett Shale?
The Barnett Shale is considered to be the “granddaddy” of all U.S. shale plays as it was the formation in which Mitchell Energy & Development first successfully implemented the technology necessary to unlock shale gas in the early 1990s.
The core area of the Barnett Shale is in Denton, Johnson, Tarrant and Wise counties, and is largely dry gas, although Wise County is generally oilier. Much of the more recent activity in the Barnett has been in the more liquids-rich portions of the play, particularly in Montague, Cooke, Jack and Wise counties. Jack and Palo Pinto counties have also seen an uptick in drilling in recent quarters for the Marble Falls horizontal tight oil play, a formation that lies directly above the Barnett Shale.
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Texas: Bosque, Clay, Cooke, Dallas, Denton, Erath, Hamilton, Hill, Hood, Jack, Johnson, Montague, Palo Pinto, Parker, Somervell, Tarrant, Wise
