Review of Emerging Resources: U.S. Shale Gas and Shale Oil ...

Shale Gas and Shale Oil PlaysReview of Emerging Resources: July Department of EnergyWashington, DC 20585 This page inTenTionally lefT blankThe information presented in this overview is based on the report Review of Emerging Resources: Shale Gas and Shale Oil Plays, which was prepared by INTEK, Inc. for the Energy Information Administration (EIA), the statistical and analytical agency within the Department of Energy. The full report is attached. By law, EIA s data, analyses, and forecasts are independent of approval by any other officer or employee of the United States Government. The views in this report therefore should not be construed as representing those of the Department of Energy or other Federal Energy Information Administration | Review of Emerging Resources: Shale Gas and Shale Oil Plays4 Review of Emerging Resources: Shale Gas and Shale Oil PlaysBackgroundThe use of horizontal drilling in conjunction with hydraulic fracturing has greatly expanded the ability of producers to profitably recover natural gas and oil from low-permeability geologic plays particularly, Shale plays.

The INTEK shale resources report estimates shale gas and shale oil resources for the undeveloped portions of 20 shale plays that have been discovered (Table 1). Eight of those shale plays are subdivided into 2 or 3 areas, resulting in a total of 29 separate

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