Estimates of the oil contained in the Monterey Shale place it at 15.4 billion barrels of oil, of 64 % of US
shale oil reserves.
In California, oil companies are pressing for further exploration of the massive Monterey Shale, a 1,750 - square - mile area extending from the agricultural Central Valley to the Pacific Ocean that federal energy officials say could ultimately comprise two - thirds of the nation's
shale oil reserves.
Not exact matches
In the event of an
oil spike, it's got proximity to amazing
shale reserves.
Global
shale resources are vast enough to cover more than a decade of
oil consumption, according to the first - ever U.S. assessment of
reserves from Russia to Argentina.
Last month, Oslo - based Rystad Energy shared a report that shows the U.S. as now having the world's largest
reserve of recoverable
oil, with 264 billion barrels in existing fields, unconventional
shale and as - yet undiscovered areas.
Every year, moreover, producers add to global
reserves, whether through unlocking natural gas
shale formations,
oil sands bitumen plays, or drilling deep into the ocean floor.
Britain is estimated to have substantial amounts of
shale gas trapped in underground rocks and the national government has supported developing these
reserves to counter declining North Sea
oil and gas output.
It will completely blow up the
oil reserves shale players are claiming to have and destroy their asset values.
The boom in unconventional fuels — such as bitumen extracted from Alberta's tar sands and
oil extracted from North Dakota's Bakken
shale formation by hydraulic fracturing («fracking»)-- has swelled global
reserves even as climate scientists issue ever - sterner warnings that burning more than a small fraction of these
reserves would be suicidal.
shale oil may be a bubble but countries like Libya Iraq Iran produce nothing compared to their potential / production capacity + there is always offshore exploration recently Morocco seems to be in the spot light not to mention the arctic sea / north pole especially Russia where a new Koweit is to be found and also south China sea Venezuela's tight
oil if all the types of
oil are included venezuela must be a heaven with a quarter of global
oil reserves with +300 billion barrels more than 260 bbls of Saudi Arabia that can still produce more than 10/11 million barrel / day that it's procucing today.
But the compounds used to crack
shale formations to release their gas and
oil reserves are under increasing scrutiny.
The numbers aren't perfect — they don't fully reflect the recent surge in unconventional energy sources like
shale gas, and they don't accurately reflect coal
reserves, which are subject to less stringent reporting requirements than
oil and gas.
If our government were truly interested in reducing
oil consumption and CO2, why is it that the Bureau of Land Managment is currently behind efforts to support
oil shale R&D and that it is considered a resource that can be relied upon when conventional
oil reserves are depleted?
Thanks to vast domestic
shale reserves and safe hydraulic fracturing, the U.S. is the world's leading producer of
oil and natural gas — which by far has had the most to do with reducing U.S. net crude imports.
The United States is the world's leading
oil and natural gas producer, thanks to vast
shale energy
reserves safely unlocked by advanced hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling.
Industry innovators took a process used for more than 60 years, modernized it and married it with it with advanced horizontal drilling to safely unleash previously inaccessible
oil and natural gas
reserves from
shale and other tight - rock formations.
China, too, has decided to tap into the
shale revolution — in a deal with the U.S. announced this week, it will be exploiting what some estimate to be the world's biggest
shale gas
reserves, equivalent in energy content to about half the
oil in Saudi Arabia.
Hydraulic fracturing is modern technology, safely and responsibly developing vast
reserves of
oil and natural gas from
shale and other tight - rock formations.
Total fossil fuel is close to a million EJ or about 500 years of the long - run thermal energy requirement in the high - growth scenario (at 60 TW (thermal) by 2100), but not including clathrates and
oil shale, that is reduced to about 50 years of
reserves at the 2100 rate (i.e. we're not even going to make it to 2100).
We must take advantage of the estimated $ 50 trillion in untapped
shale,
oil, and natural gas
reserves, especially those on federal lands that the American people own.
Hydraulic fracturing is a modern technology, safely and responsibly developing vast
reserves of
oil and natural gas from
shale and other tight - rock formations.
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As recoverable
oil reserves dwindle, there will be increasing pressure to convert coal to liquid fuels as well as exploit unconventional fossil fuels like methane hydrates, tar sands, and
oil shale.
This starts with a view that U.S.
oil and natural gas abundance — thanks to plentiful
shale reserves and hydraulic fracturing — is a national asset to be supported and expanded, its benefits distributed to all parts of the country via 21st century infrastructure.
The revolution is a
shale energy / fracking revolution, carried along by the combination of modern hydraulic fracturing and advanced horizontal drilling that unlocked vast
reserves of
oil and natural gas in
shale and other tight - rock formations.
The shift is the result of surging
oil and natural gas production using advanced hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling, harnessing
oil and gas
reserves in
shale and other tight - rock formations.
The mining industry has discovered that there are huge
reserves of coal - seam gas and
oil -
shale that can be profitably exploited.
Tight
oil plays, mostly from
shale formations, accounted for 33 percent of all the crude
oil and lease condensate proved
reserves.
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The U.S.
shale boom has allowed producers to unlock thousands of barrels of
reserves, putting the United States on course to become the largest producer of
oil globally, which would dramatically reduce its dependence on imports.
Over-hyped
reserves of
oil - bearing
shale and OPEC's deliberate overproduction (to starve U.S. frackers) temporarily wiped the 2008
oil price spike from Americans» memory, and they'll be caught off guard when it returns.
``...... * FIFTH, I will lift the restrictions on the production of $ 50 trillion dollars» worth of job - producing American energy
reserves, including
shale,
oil, natural gas and clean coal.
They refuse to see that the fracking of
shale for
oil and natural gas is not an actual increase in physical
reserves.
Now we are at the point that all the unconventional
reserves, such as tar sands and
shale oil, immediately start at the 40 % level, since we have to use a lot of energy to even begin to extract the underlying
oil efficiently.
You'd have to make an unrealistic assumption about extractable coal
reserves (plus
shale to
oil, tar sands etc.) to believe that we don't have enough fossil fuels to really wreck the Earth's climate.
More on the benefits of
shale gas as touted by fracking companies being overstated: According to new independent analysis, published in The
Oil Drum, of extent of the US»
shale gas
reserves and the economics of extracting those finds that «industry
From First Nations and allies in British Columbia standing up to the Kinder Morgan tar sands pipeline to civil society and frontline communities in Argentina demanding a different development pathway to avoid the dangerous exploitation of massive
shale oil and gas
reserves, the resistance is global.
Thanks to vast
shale energy
reserves and safe, modern hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling, the United States has become the world's leading producer of
oil and natural gas.