Prominence

The coming to prominence of natural gas and oil resource plays in the United States has reshaped the outlook for the country’s energy future and reconfigured the view for producers and capital markets as well, speakers at a Houston energy conference said.

The Marcellus Shale in Pennsylvania is generally divided into two regions, the northeast and the southwest, but increasingly the stretch of fairway between those regions is gaining prominence.

Appalachian Basin player Consol Energy Inc. may be known as a coal producer, but the company’s natural gas profile is growing in prominence.