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Encouraged by success stories on the Louisiana side of the Haynesville shale, operators in East Texas are taking a turn in the spotlight.

When legendary oilman Haroldson Lafayette (H.L.) Hunt sold his gambling hall in Arkansas in the 1920s and reinvested the proceeds into the emerging oil patch, he set into motion a near century-long saga of events that would make the East Texas wildcatter one of the world’s richest men and inspire a hit TV show.

?East Texas and North Louisiana have served another tantalizing reservoir—the superb Haynesville shale.

?Rising U.S. gas production has producers and pipeline developers scrambling for new take-away capacity against a backdrop of dicey financial markets.

Home to numerous gas targets, East Texas prospects are shaping up to be some of the nation's most fruitful gas-producing basins.

Popular plays range from straightforward tight-gas targets to tricky, high-temperature, high-pressure reservoirs.

One of the world’s most heavily drilled regions thrives as unconventional gas plays take off.

In the northern Bayou State, operators are finding plenty of passed pay in old fields and using huge frac treatments to harvest tight gas resources.

Operators continue to cajole new production from East Texas, the original petroleum province of the Lone Star State.

Virtually abandoned for 15 years, Overton Field is getting some new attention through improved drilling and completion techniques and natural gas prices.

This red-hot, tight-gas-sand play in East Texas affirms that exploration in the onshore U.S. can still yield copious reserves.