The difference, however, is that while foreign companies mostly sold oil assets, they mainly
purchased natural gas assets as an adjustment strategy to cope with the anticipated decline in oil prices and even the global oil industry.
EQT's
purchase of Rice would significantly add to its
assets in the Marcellus and Utica shale regions, which account for much of the growth in U.S.
natural gas production.
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