--> Growing and Indispensable: The Contribution of Production from Tight Gas Sands to U.S. Gas Production, by Richard Nehring; #90042 (2005)
[First Hit]

Datapages, Inc.Print this page

Growing and Indispensable: The Contribution of Previous HitProductionNext Hit from Tight Gas Sands to U.S. Gas Previous HitProductionNext Hit

Richard Nehring
NRG Associates, Colorado Springs, Colorado

Previous HitProductionNext Hit from tight gas sands has been a growing and indispensable proportion of U.S. gas Previous HitproductionNext Hit. This poster discusses three dimensions of the contribution of Previous HitproductionNext Hit from tight gas sands from 1990 to 2003: (1) within the context of total U.S. gas Previous HitproductionNext Hit, (2) by comparison to other non-conventional sources of domestic gas Previous HitproductionNext Hit, and )3) the geographical and geological composition of tight gas sands Previous HitproductionNext Hit.

From 1990 to 2003, Previous HitproductionNext Hit from tight gas sands grew from 11% to 18% of contiguous U.S. gas Previous HitproductionNext Hit. Previous HitProductionNext Hit from tight gas sands is greater than the Previous HitproductionNext Hit from each of the other major non-conventional sources of Previous HitproductionNext Hit (coalbed methane, gas from shales, deepwater); in fact, Previous HitproductionNext Hit from tight gas sands is nearly equal to Previous HitproductionNext Hit from all three of these sources. Tight gas sands Previous HitproductionNext Hit is highly concentrated in fewer than ten crucial plays. The future of tight gas sands Previous HitproductionNext Hit thus depends on sustaining and growing Previous HitproductionTop from these plays and developing major new tight gas sand plays.