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Shale plays first come to mind when one considers unconventional resources. These unconventional resource plays may yield natural gas, gas condensates, and crude oil. Some of the more noteworthy shale plays in North America include the Barnett, Haynesville, Marcellus, Eagle Ford, Fayetteville, Woodford, Bakken, Niobrara, Horn River, and Utica formations. Tight gas, coalbed methane, oil sands, and heavy oil are non-shale unconventional resources.
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Outlook & Trends
Warlick International Noted researcher and consultant Don Warlick provides a mid-year update on the current state of gas shale development and markets for natural gas. Read the article here. |
Unconventional Resource Maps |
According to a recent Wood Mackenzie report, China’s coal bed methane (CBM) growth is currently slow but will make up one third of unconventional gas supply to the country in the long-term. This leaves room for emerging leader, PetroChina, to position itself either independently or with foreign partners as a player in the future of global unconventional gas.
Cubic Energy Inc. has drilled another horizontal well in the Haynesville shale. The Red Oak Timber 7-1 ALT spud on August 6, 2010 with surface casing set at 1,903 feet.
Houston-based Eagle Ford Oil & Gas Corp. has reached an agreement to divest the working interest in the Wilson Field in South Texas to a Houston-based oil and gas company.
Falcon Technologies and Services Inc. - a subsidiary of Carbo Ceramics Inc. and provider of custom spill prevention, control and countermeasure systems - has started operations in the Marcellus shale resource play.
Topaz Resources Inc. has reached the targeted depth of its Barnett Shale well located in the "oil" leg of the Barnett shale formation in North Texas.
A recent analysis of EOG Resources' EUR (estimated ultimate recovery) expectations in the Eagle Ford shale by Jefferies & Co. Inc. shows that the results are “reasonable” and that play is “quite robust from a return perspective.”
Houston’s Enbridge Energy Partners LP and Enbridge Income Fund in Calgary have launched a joint project to expand crude oil pipeline capacity to accommodate rapidly growing production in the Bakken and Three Forks formations in North Dakota and Montana in the US and the Canadian provinces of Saskatchewan and Manitoba.
The global economic crisis has led to a significant drop in global demand for natural gas, which has led to a huge slump in natural gas prices, according to a new report from GBI Research.
Capstone Turbine Corp., a producer of low-emission microturbine systems, recently received an order for 18 C65 microturbines for a large independent oil and natural gas company operating in the Eagle Ford shale play.
Abraxas Petroleum Corp. has signed a joint venture agreement with Denver-based exploration and production start-up company Blue Stone Oil & Gas LLC to develop the Eagle Ford Shale play in South Texas.
Jeff Eshelman and Chris Tucker
Energy in Depth
The US State Department is seeking to export the promise and potential of shale gas to markets around the world, but the big question is: Will the Obama Administration apply the same lessons and encouragement here at home?
A veritable shale gas “revolution” taking place right here, right now, all across America – with hundreds of thousands of jobs and billions in state, local, and federal revenue currently being generated in its wake.
Let’s promote shale gas globally, but let’s act locally on it as well. That was the message delivered by the State Department at the Washington event.
