OGPSS - Natural gas production, as shale gas arrives

The natural gas industry in the United States has undergone significant changes in the last twenty years. As I noted last time, until 1993 ...

OGPSS - The new EIA Shale gas report

I had intended starting my country-by-country more detailed analysis this week, but with the publishing of the EIA compendium on world gas s...

An update on fuels from shale, and The Giant Toaster

This afternoon I was able to drop in on a talk by Jeremy Boak, who runs the Center for Oil Shale Technology and_Research (COSTAR) in Golden...

Shale, gas and water

This is a short technical note as part of a series that discusses some of the aspects of fossil fuel production. Earlier posts in the series...

Horizontal wells and Gas Shales

This post is one in a series, describing some of the ways in which fossil fuels are produced, and in the current part of the series (listed ...

Arthur Berman leaves World Oil magazine

This is just a short note, since Tuesday's tend to be my busiest days in class, but I could not help but put up the news best reported ...

Shales and the gas within them

This is Sunday, so this is a technical talk about getting fossil fuel out of the ground. While some previous posts have dealt with sandstone...

An interesting, and worrying talk at ASPO

Unfortunately I have had to miss the ASPO Meeting in Denver this week, and so cannot provide the daily reports that I have written in the pa...

Hydrofracing Natural Gas Wells

Some time ago I wrote a piece for The Oil Drum on Hydrofracing, that explained some of the basic processes involved in the technology. Since...