Asian Tigers Stalk U.S Gas as Louisiana Shale Profits Taper

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DeSoto Parish, Louisiana, has a problem. The solution may lie 10,000 miles away in Jakarta.

A rustic stretch of bayous and timberland, DeSoto and other communities in the Haynesville shale formation have become victims of the energy industry’s success in extracting natural gas from deeply buried rock.