Shale gas, due to its clean-burning and efficient nature, is becoming an increasingly
promising alternative energy resource. It is commonly held that promoting shale gas …

Considerable controversy continues about water availability for and potential impacts of
hydraulic fracturing (HF) of hydrocarbon assets on water resources. Our objective was to …

Methane emissions from the oil and gas industry (O&G) and other sources in the Barnett
Shale region were estimated by constructing a spatially resolved emission inventory …

Recent studies suggest the possibility of CO2 sequestration in depleted shale gas
formations, motivated by large storage capacity estimates in these formations. Questions …

New well productivity levels have increased steadily across the major shale gas and tight oil
basins of North America since large-scale development began a decade ago. These gains …

This study models the uncertainty range in the future gas production output from US shale
plays up to 2025. The future spread in gas output in our models follows from variations in the …

Abstract The Eagle Ford Shale presents a unique opportunity to assess the effect of wide-
ranging fluid properties and pressure on well performance across a single shale play …

Assessing the production potential of shale gas can be assisted by constructing a simple,
physics-based model for the productivity of individual wells. We adopt the simplest plausible …

The water footprint of oil production, including water used for hydraulic fracturing (HF) and
flowback-produced (FP) water, is increasingly important in terms of HF water sourcing and …

We develop a new method of predicting fieldwide gas or oil production from unconventional
reservoirs, using the Barnett shale as an illustration. First, we divide the qualifying 13 141 …