Articles Posted in Unconventional Resources

This video was done by the American Petroleum Institute to illustrate the modern techniques used in the drilling, fracing and completion of a horizontal well.

In a recent Wall Stree Journal article, “America’s Natural Gas Revolution,” Daniel Yergin and Robert Ineson opine that gas produced from shale “is already changing the national energy dialogue and overall energy outlook in the U.S.–and could change the global natural gas balance.” Mr. Yergin is the author of “The Prize:…

  EIA issued the following press release today: U.S. Energy Information Administration Washington, DC 20585 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE OCTOBER 29, 2009 Natural Gas Reserves at Record High – Oil Reserves Fall with Lower Price At the end of 2008, domestic natural gas proved reserves reached their highest level since the…

Momentum appears to be gaining to increase use of compressed natural gas in vehicles in the U.S., both to decrease the nation’s dependence on foreign oil and as a “bridge fuel” to fight global warming. Last Week, the Potential Gas Committee issued a report estimating that the toal U.S. natural…

Four legislators from Colorado, New York and Pennsylvania have introduced a bill making hydraulic fracturing subject to regulation by the Environmental Protection Agency under the Safe Water Drinking Act.  Dubbed the Fracturing Responsibility and Awareness of Chemicals Act, or FRAC Act ( FRAC Act.pdf), the bill would amend the Safe Drinking Water…

A study ( Armendariz Study.pdf) published last February by Al Armendariz, an engineering professor at Southern Methodist University, concluded that gas drilling in the Barnett Shale contributes about as much air pollution to the D-FW area as emissions from cars and trucks. Dr. Armendariz’s study was financed by the Environmental Defense Fund. Dr. Armendariz…

Chesapeake Energy has obtained City approval for a “master drilling plan” that lays out plans to drill 69 horizontal wells from seven drilling locations within the City of Fort Worth.  The plan identifies the drilling locations and the gathering lines, and how produced water will be disposed of.  The plan shows how…

Renewable energy is a hot topic in the new Obama Administration.  Wind Energy is being touted, especially in Texas, as a solution to global warming and U.S. dependence on foreign oil.  Wind farms have sprouted all across Texas.  Texas is now the leading wind energy producing state.  Texas utilities are about…

 The last few years have seen a boom in the oil and gas exploration business in the U.S., driven by new technologies that have allowed exploitation of “unconventional” resources for gas and oil.  These resources are often called “resource” plays, because the oil and gas is being produced from shale…