Barnett: 2006 Trevor Rees-Jones, founder and CEO of Chief Oil & Gas, LLC: “As the Barnett progressed, we were always drawing these lines, projecting our fear of where it would stop. It was foreign – the nature of an unconventional play – to our thinking that ‘Hey, this thing can…
Nissa Darbonne, author of The American Shales, is editor-at-large for Hart Energy Publishing, LLP. She began her journalism career in 1984 in the oil and gas fields of South Louisiana, including for The Daily Advertiser (Lafayette) and The Morning Advocate (Baton Rouge). She received her B.A. in English and Journalism from the University of Southwestern Louisiana (University of Louisiana at Lafayette). She lives in Houston.
To read more of Nissa Darbonne’s commentary on U.S. shale plays, see her article on the Marcellus in the Sept/Oct 2021 issue of Oilwoman Magazine.
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