Can we torture the Howard County data a bit more? As President Obama used to say, and this is some time ago now, yes we can. First of all the volumes:

Then the gas to oil ratio in energy equivalent terms:

Howard County gas production has remained flat as oil production tipped over into its death dive. What is interesting is that the gas to oil ratio had a change in trend in July 2023. This is likely due to a county-wide pressure drop below the bubble point, if that is possible. Eventually gas production will follow oil into a death dive; the plateau will be short-lived. Jean Laherrere, a 93 year old French oilman, provides a big picture view:

Others have a different perspective on the US natural gas production outlook, in particular the ones fixing to double the country's LNG production:

Mr Archibald,
Thank you so much for this. These charts make sense and I agree this could be an outstanding predictive tool.
I suppose this methodology could tell you quite a bit about specific operators in a county or trend. If so they would probably pay you to go away!