Though Faulkner County wells currently produces less than a quarter of the natural gas White, Conway and Johnson counties do, Brad Lacy of the Conway Chamber of Commerce and Conway Development Corp. said he believes 2,000 Faulkner County jobs have been created as a result of the oil and gas industry.

... encourage cooperation between about 20 state and federal agencies expected to have some involvement in overseeing oil and gas industry activity in the Fayetteville Shale play. Pickett said some measure needs to be taken to ensure that the oversight bodies ...