As well as saving money, this makes it possible to extract gas from below urban areas-and, as with the lucrative Barnett shale, from under the Dallas-Fort Worth airport.

这种方法除了省钱，还使得从都市底下采气成为可能，比如从达拉斯沃斯堡机场(Dallas - Fort Worth airport)下面那极具价值的巴涅特页岩里采气。

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"Barnett Shale properties are like the beautiful woman at the prom, " one company PR man told the Fort Worth Star-Telegram in 2005. "Everybody wants to dance with her.

2005年，一家公司的公关人员对《沃斯堡明星电讯报》表示：“巴奈特页岩田的财富就像是舞会上的漂亮女人，每个人都想和她跳舞。”

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In fact, ozone levels have declined even as production has dramatically increased in the Barnett shale.

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That's a result of the explosion of natural gas drilling in the Barnett Shale near Forth Worth.

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In 2004 XTO entered the Barnett Shale, a large field in northern Texas, and got the rigs pumping with dispatch.

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