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Can US Natural Gas Production Be Ramped Up?

Posted by Gail the Actuary on September 4, 2008 - 9:35am
Topic: Supply/Production
Tags: barnett shale, coal bed methane, natural gas, original, shale gas, tight gas, unconventional gas [list all tags]

Navigant Consulting Inc (NCI) recently prepared a report called North American Natural Gas Supply Assessment on behalf of a natural gas organization called the American Clean Skies Foundation. In this report, NCI estimates the amounts shale gas and tight gas production can be increased in the next decade. These estimates suggest that US natural gas production can be ramped up by nearly 50% by 2020. How reasonable are these estimates? What obstacles are there to such a big ramp up?


Figure 1. Approximate future US natural gas production, based on Navigant Consulting estimates of shale gas and tight gas production.

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