By Jack MoneyBusiness writer jmoney@oklahoman.comNatural gas plays where two upstream and one midstream Oklahoma City-based companies are active are hanging tough so far this year as the COVID-19 pandemic continues. Enverus, an on-demand software and data analytics company that follows the oil and gas industry, highlighted encouraging trends seen in the Appalachian and Haynesville basins in its Enverus FundamentalEdge series report released earlier this month. While drilling activity is down in both basins, it hasn’t fallen as much in those as it has in other oil-focused onshore shale plays. Plus, the report notes that production from those basins recovered to about where it was before energy markets collapsed, said Maria Sanchez, an energy market analyst at Enverus who focuses on natural gas fundamentals. “The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and the price war between Russia and Saudi Arabia really drove oil prices down,” she said.Read more on NewsOK.com