There’s a whole lotta shakin’ goin’ on in the Haynesville right now, driven by natural gas demand from LNG export terminals and data centers. Straddling East Texas and Northern La., the Haynesville’s gassy 9,000-square-mile area is hardly a new study, starting with conventional wells for decades with booms and busts until the shale revolution changed everything. Call it a basin, call it a shale play, the Haynesville has since brought sexy back to one of the nation’s largest gas fields with new exploration underway.

Reese Energy Consulting today is following the latest news from the Haynesville, where wildcatting has become the soup du jour in the emerging far western slice of this gas field. Okla. City-based Expand Energy in 2025 has dug, dealed, and drilled into what’s been branded Waynesville. The company in Q3 reported a build-out of a 75,000-acre position and a $178 million investment here in the second half of 2025.

Commanding a huge presence in the Haynesville and the Waynesville is Frisco, Texas-based Comstock Energy, an OG player with four rigs in the latter. The E&P, backed by Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones, is knee deep in an exploration program that’s all about the Western Haynesville, which according to the company is taking a “large part of our time and budget now.”

In related news, Houston-based Amplify Energy has bid a final adieu to the Haynesville and Cotton Valley with two transactions valued at $5.5 million.