Sentences with phrase «shale gas production»

In 2010, U.S. shale gas production reached 4.87 Tcf (23 percent of total U.S. natural gas production), compared with 0.39 Tcf in 2000.

«The U.S. has seen a 20 percent increase in oil and gas production and a nine-fold increase in shale gas production from 2002 to 2014, but the spatial pattern of the methane increase seen by GOSAT does not clearly point to these sources.

Jerry Acton has updated his Marcellus shale gas production model based on the latest production numbers from Pennsylvania.

The EPA said estimates at the volume required ranges from 65,000 gallons for shallow coalbed methane production, up to 13 million gallons for deep shale gas production.

The part of these resources that become economically recoverable resources will depend on the market price of natural gas from foreign sources, including both pipeline gas and liquefied natural gas, as well as the capital and operating costs and productivity of shale gas production within China.

Last week a group of MIT scientists determined that «the amount of methane emissions caused by shale gas production has been largely exaggerated.»

These advances have led to an eightfold increase in shale gas production over the past decade.

Thanks to the expansion of shale gas production, the impacts of natural gas are catching up fast (12).

In the US, where power generation from coal has fallen by 38 % in volume since 2007, the availability of cheaper natural gas brought about by the boom in shale gas production has caused significant switching from coal to natural gas in the power sector.

Although LNG proponents still characterize shale gas production as «clean» and without methane leakage or groundwater contamination, field observations by the David Suzuki Foundation suggest that many leaky wells are not appearing in the B.C. database.

Key factors likely contributing to increased natural gas spot trading in the Marcellus area include: rapid increases in Marcellus shale gas production; direct deliveries of Wyoming gas to the Ohio / Pennsylvania border through the Rockies Express Pipeline; and increased use of natural gas for power generation.

In the journal Climatic Change (where the first study by Howarth was published), Cathles lays out several fundamental errors that led Howarth to unreliable conclusions about the emissions from shale gas production:

The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) reports that the two plays provided 85 percent of U.S. shale gas production growth since the start of 2012, reflecting the blossoming production from shale and other tight - rock formations through safe fracking.

A 630 bcm increase in US shale gas production over the 15 years from 2008 would comfortably exceed the previous record for gas.

The actual leak rate is poorly known, but in any reasonable case U.S. shale gas production is a small, but not trivial, contributor to the global methane increase over the last several years.

Of that 8 percent, only about 1 percent can be related to U.S. shale gas production.

Let's assume a 3 percent leak rate during shale gas production.

U.S. shale gas production began to ramp up around 2007 (the earliest data available from the Energy Information Administration), increasing from 1.99 trillion cubic feet to 8.50 trillion from 2007 to 2011 (latest data available from the agency).

Then U.S. shale gas production could account for about 12 percent of the global methane increase over that time (it scales at approximately 4 percent of global increase per 1 percent leak rate).

A simple top - down analysis, based on global scale changes in carbon dioxide and methane, provides some insight into the potential impact of U.S. shale gas production and displacement of coal on global climate.

A key element in the success of North American shale gas production has been combining cost - effective horizontal drilling, a technique developed over the last 30 years, with hydraulic fracturing, which has been practised since the 1940s.

Oil fell $ 1.41 to US$ 79.60 a barrel after Goldman Sachs said that it expects oil prices to tumble into the next year as shale gas production continues to expand and oil supply outstrips demand.

The shale gas production boom took off after 2010, when the U.S. dollar embarked on a multi-year uptrend that was supported by an exodus from the euro during the sovereign debt crisis and a marked slowdown of capital flows to emerging markets.

In research published Monday in the journal Energy and Emission Control Technologies, however, Howarth suggests that as fracking and shale gas production began booming in the U.S., methane emissions spiked, negating any climate benefit from falling carbon dioxide emissions.

The study says there is an urgent need to identify and plug methane leaks in shale gas production nationwide.

Using the Rice World Gas Trade Model, the Energy Forum examines the geopolitical repercussions of expanding U.S. shale gas production.

Until now, estimates of shale gas production have primarily relied on models established for conventional oil and gas wells, which behave differently from the horizontal wells in gas - rich shales.

But this situation has changed in the US, thanks in part to the boom in shale gas production.

It's sad that the biggest takeaway from the UT Austin / Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) study on methane emissions from upstream shale gas production has been the involvement of industry.

A new study finds that methane emissions from shale gas production are nearly 50 times lower than previous estimates, improving the climate benefit of switching from coal to natural gas.

There, shale gas production has begun, and it just might help wean China off the coal that has made it the world's worst carbon dioxide polluter — and blanketed the nation in bad air.

That would equal nearly one third of expected U.S. shale gas production and would require thousands of wells to be drilled in the next few years.

China would need to increase that shale gas production via fracking more than 30 times in just the next two years in order to meet its goal.

Coal - powered synthetic natural gas plants being planned in China would produce seven times more greenhouse gas emissions than conventional natural gas plants, and use up to 100 times the water as shale gas production, according to a new study.

Coal - powered synthetic natural gas plants being planned in China would produce seven times more greenhouse gas emissions than conventional natural gas plants, and use up to 100 times the water as shale gas production, according to a new study by Duke University researchers.

Over the past five years, with improvements in fracking, shale gas production has soared.

«Assuming that technology will allow ever more shale gas production at low prices — and betting energy policy and the future energy security of the country on it — is risky business,» says geologist David Hughes, who retired from the Canadian Geological Survey and is now doing assessments of shale gas and oil for the nonprofit Post Carbon Institute, a California - based environmental think tank.

Fracking is enabling a shale gas production boom, remaking energy markets, and stoking environmental concerns.

And at that point, shale gas production would still be increasing, with much more extracted after 2030.

During the discussions, Zucker displayed numerous scientific papers that he said highlighted how multiple facets of shale gas production, including drilling, trucking, and wastewater disposal, could potentially harm human health.

Indeed, a shortage of accessible natural gas threatens to cause more manufacturing losses in the region, where the state has banned shale gas production via high - pressure hydraulic hydrofracturing.

The downstate region, dominated by New York City, has been growing much faster than upstate (everything north of the metropolitan transportation district)-- and the slowest growing upstate metro areas are in Central New York and the Southern Tier, which would benefit most from the issuance of long - delayed state regulations allowing the use of hydraulic fracturing in shale gas production.

The Southern Tier's outlook already had been dimmed by the Cuomo administration's December 2014 decision to block shale gas production using hydraulic fracturing in the Marcellus Shale region.

Thanks to cheaper supply from shale gas production, projects are already underway to convert to natural gas.

Canadian natural gas producers were also seeking new buyers as exports to the United States steadily fell with the rise in domestic U.S. shale gas production.

We have discussed Encana in previous letters, but a combination of significant management changes, pipeline politics and the exploding growth of North American shale gas production caused us to redeploy the money elsewhere.

China has cut resources tax on shale gas production by 30 percent from April 1, the Ministry of Finance said on Tuesday, as the world's largest energy consumer aims to Continue Reading

The marginal cost of shale gas production is $ 4 / mmBtu despite popular but incorrect narratives that it is lower.

America's shale gas production is about to surge 12 percent.

Goldman Sachs has downgraded its estimations for oil prices for this year, citing a potential rise in shale gas production, new projects and OPEC restrictions.