All posts in shale gas


Shale Gas: Not Clean, Either?

April 5, 2010 by Tom Konrad
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<!--break--> Not only are there serious questions about just how abundant natural gas from shale plays is, it now turns out that this “Cheap, Clean, Abundant, and Domestic” resource may turn out to only be domestic. In a draft paper, Cornell researcher Robert Howarth calculates that, when methane leakage from hydraulic fracturing is... [read more]

American Petroleum Institute Chief Economist On Marcellus Shale Opportunities

March 5, 2010 by Rod Adams
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<!--break--> On September 23, 2009, John Felmy, the chief economist of the American Petroleum Institute (API) spoke at the Pennsylvania College of Technology in Williamsport, PA about the vast opportunities that the API sees for developing the shale gas that is buried about 6,000 feet below the surface. Warning: Felmy is a self-... [read more]

Shale Gas and Drinking Water

February 23, 2010 by Geoffrey Styles
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<!--break--> Life is full of unintended consequences, and the energy industry is currently dealing with a significant one related to the step-change in US natural gas reserves and production made possible by exploiting gas resources locked up in deposits of a sedimentary rock called shale. The very success of these efforts has placed... [read more]

Is Shale Gas Potential Being Overestimated?

February 21, 2010 by Rod Adams
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<!--break--> The Energy Tribune has an excellent cautionary tale titled New Research Questions Haynesville Shale Economics for those people who insist that abundant shale gas is the saving grace for the US energy needs and that its abundance is sufficiently large to serve as THE bridge to a solar/wind utopia. I have been watching... [read more]

Another gas source for Australia - unconventional (shale) gas from the Cooper Basin ?

February 11, 2010 by Big Gav
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<!--break--> Santos recently raised their gas reserves (largely due to new coal seam gas exploration) by 42 per cent, saying "the reserves upgrade brings its total reserves to 1.44 billion barrels of oil equivalent at the end of 2009". They now say they have enough gas to proceed with the first phase of their Gladstone based LNG... [read more]

Does ExxonMobil-XTO Merger Mean More Hydrofracking?

January 21, 2010 by Tim Hurst
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<!--break--> A drill rig in the Marcellus Shale area. Company CEOs testify on Capitol Hill, stand by hydraulic fracturing The House Energy and Commerce Committee held a hearing Wednesday morning on the merger between oil giant ExxonMobil and unconventional natural gas specialists XTO. The $41 billion deal, agreed on in mid-December... [read more]

Shale gas as a game changer: A view from the UK

December 3, 2009 by Michael Giberson
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<!--break--> Production of natural gas from shale has dramatically changed the U.S. energy resource picture, and although experience elsewhere is limited* it is increasingly obvious that this not just a North American story. Nick Grealy, at No Hot Air, considers the implications for the UK: North American shale gas already has a... [read more]

Natural gas from shale: long lasting or going fast?

November 4, 2009 by Michael Giberson
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<!--break--> Daniel Yergin and Robert Ineson have an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal discussing the development and implications of natural gas from shale in the U.S. market. Not much will be new to you if you’ve been following the commentary here for a while, but they do provide a very good, general overview. The basic story: The... [read more]

Gazprom, Europe, and long-term take-or-pay contracts

November 2, 2009 by Michael Giberson
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<!--break--> Shifting world natural gas supply conditions have put the squeeze on long-term gas supply contracts between Russian gas giant Gazprom and its European customers.  A summary from the Wall Street Journal: European energy companies, faced with weakening demand and plentiful lower-cost fuel supplies, have bought far less... [read more]

NPR Focuses on The Little Guys Who Bring You Domestic Natural Gas

September 25, 2009 by Rod Adams
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<!--break--> I have spent many hours listening to NPR radio stories while commuting back and forth from Annapolis to Washington since the summer of 2001. I enjoy the in-depth coverage and the lack of the usual kind of shouting commercials. There are times, however, when I get disappointed. This past week has been one of those times as... [read more]

See No Evil, Hear No Evil Approach to Regulating Hydraulic Fracturing Shale Gas Extraction

June 8, 2009 by Rod Adams
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<!--break--> On June 4, 2009 the House Committee on Natural Resources Subcommittee on Energy and Minerals held a hearing on the topic of shale gas development through the technique of hydraulic fracturing. While spending a couple of hours this morning listening to a somewhat testy exchange of opinions and positions, I learned that the... [read more]

Shale Gas and Climate Change

June 5, 2009 by Geoffrey Styles
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<!--break--> In Wednesday's posting on the likely consequences of the latest version of greenhouse gas (GHG) cap & trade legislation, I hinted at an important option for electricity suppliers to reduce their emissions promptly. Today I'd like to elaborate on it. Although the power sector accounts for the largest share of US GHGs... [read more]