Shale Dispatch

[...] Greenhouse gas emissions from the production and use of shale gas would be comparable to conventional natural gas, but the controversial energy source actually [...]

[...] imports phosphatic fertilisers from Jordan, is now targeting to jointly explore ways to mine shale gas with the Arab Kingdom. Both countries have energy deficits and are large crude oil importers. [...]

[...] the US. Industry experts caution that it would be much more difficult for China to monetise its shale gas reserves than the US as it faces serious challenges from water shortages to complicated [...]

[...] beauty, national parks and world heritage sites. About half the UK will be open for bids. “Shale gas in Britain has the potential to provide us with greater energy security, jobs and growth,” new [...]

[...] that the US has approximately 610 trillion cubic feet (Tcf) of technically recoverable shale natural gas resources and 59 billion barrels of technically recoverable tight oil resources. As a result, [...]

[...] by mid-2015. If it goes ahead it will cost an estimated $4.5 billion. “The abundant sources of natural gas in the Gulf Coast region and the expansion of the Panama Canal in 2016 make this location [...]

[...] The Marcellus region of the US is now the biggest natural gas shale play in the world and there’s still about $90 billion to be made by tapping the area’s [...]

[...] China has more than tripled natural gas production since 2003, producing 3.8 tcf in 2012, and the government is targeting production to [...]

[...] A five-fold increase in crude oil production over the past three years has given the Eagle Ford basin in Texas an instant star on the shale walk of fame. Unlike other booming shale basins the [...]

[...] Oil coaxed from the rapidly developing Eagle Ford and Permian Basin production areas recently lifted Texas’ output back above 3 million barrels [...]

[...] Houston-based BHP Billiton Petroleum hopes to export the light oil called condensate from the Eagle Ford Shale. President Rod Skaufel said last week in San Antonio that the company is among those [...]

[...] candidates for re-fracturing — a process that would eliminate the cost to drill. The company’s Eagle Ford wells cost about $4 million to drill and another $4 million to complete, a process that [...]

[...] been the YPF’s operating base, where 15 to 20 wells are drilled every month in the Vaca Muerta shale oil and gas field in the Neuquén basin. There are currently more than 300 wells producing [...]

[...] a US-flagged oil tanker for the first time, allowing it to tap directly into cheap Texas shale oil as the company overhauls its supply strategy. Monroe Energy, the Delta subsidiary that runs the [...]

[...] The renewed development of shale oil and gas resources in Scotland could deliver a number of positive economic impacts, according to [...]

[...] Chile contains a risked, technically recoverable 49 Tcf of shale gas and 2.4 billion barrels of shale oil. Located in southern Patagonia, the 65,000 square mile Magallanes Basin has promising but [...]

[...] sitting in the sometimes mile-deep rock formations. And rapid decline rates in shale oil and gas production have prompted the industry to look for ways to enhance output. In 2011, the Department of [...]

[...] that contributes to climate change. It’s released by livestock, landfills, and oil and gas production. It accounts for about 9% of US greenhouse gas pollution, but it’s over 20 times more [...]

[...] develop their interests, the truth is that when it comes to promoting onshore unconventional gas production (particularly CBM and shale gas) progress has been painfully slow. No major CBM or shale gas [...]

[...] in the gulf and terminals that will export liquefied natural gas to Europe and Asia, he said. Gas production in the country increased by half a billion cubic feet a day in July, according to analyst [...]

[...] per day in July, the most productive period ever recorded there, according the US Energy Information Administration. The Marcellus Region, located largely in the states of West Virginia and [...]

[...] per month per well in April to about 2,959 barrels per month per well in May. The US Energy Information Administration said in a report Monday that the growth in drilling may have yielded knowledge [...]

[...] levels of carbon dioxide and no hydrogen sulphide. China is estimated by the US Energy Information Administration to hold the world’s largest recoverable shale gas reserves of 1,115 trillion [...]

[...] in the US. By the end of 2013 it accounted for nearly 20% of total supply. The US Energy Information Administration predicts the formation will produce an average of 15.9 billion cubic feet of gas [...]

[...] Poland will invest about Zloty 5 billion ($1.57 billion) in shale gas exploration by 2016, the country’s treasury minister Wlodzimierz Karpinski said. “Polish energy [...]

[...] what the government believes is an attractive $12 per MMBTU to energy firms for shale gas exploration for the first three discoveries over the next three years, unnamed officials told [...]

[...] China’s Ministry of Land and Resources has given approval for shale gas exploration in the north of the Middle Kingdom’s Guizhou province, according to Ecns. The exploration [...]

[...] UK Petrochemical company Ineos has bought a majority share in a licence for shale gas exploration and development in Scotland. The company said it had purchased a 51% share in an onshore [...]

[...] China’s largest oil and gas producers plan to increase shale gas production by 40% a year to meet the nation’s production target. China Petroleum & Chemical Corp [...]

[...] growth in China, a key market for new suppliers, is highly dependent on the scope of its shale gas production in the coming years, according to Keun-Wook Paik, senior research fellow at the Oxford [...]

[...] 2013, which accounted for 24.6% of its total, according to company data. China has cut its shale gas production target for 2020 by half to 30 billion cubic metres per year, National Energy [...]

[...] from about 290,000 in 2009, the ICE data show. The switch reflects the boom in shale gas production, as well as a growing recognition that pricing all US gas at a single hub no longer [...]