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Exxon Mobil Corp. and Americas Petrogas Inc. have “phenomenal” tight gas prospects in Argentina and expect “explosive” output growth in 5 years, said Guimar Vaca Coca, managing director of Americas Petrogas.Petrogas expects shale output of 10,000 barrels by 2017, Vaca Coca said in an interview...
A new assessment by the U.S. Geological Survey shows that the Cook Inlet Region of Alaska contains an estimated mean of 19 trillion cubic feet of natural gas, about 600 million barrels of oil, and 46 million barrels of natural gas liquids.This estimate is of undiscovered, technically recoverable oil...
Shell Oil has made its Global Onshore Tight/Shale Oil and Gas Operating Principles available to the public with examples of how the company delivers them.The move is intended to address public concern about tight/shale oil and gas development - especially regarding hydraulic fracturing - encourage feedback...
Shell is working to produce more natural gas and by 2012 our production will be more gas than oil, with production of gas trapped tightly in rock pores, known as tight gas, becoming a rapidly growing part of the picture.Tight gas is natural gas held in rock pores up to 20,000 times narrower than a human hair.
If you liked what horizontal drilling and fracture stimulation did for shale gas plays, you’ll love what they are doing for tight gas.Case in point: the Granite Wash.The Granite Wash has been an active play for decades – but lately, it’s become REAL active.This decades-old tight-sands play about...