Unconventional Gas

APPLICATIONS » Unconventional natural gas resources are typically located in heterogeneous, extremely complex, and often poorly understood geologic systems, often easy to find but difficult to produce.

The largest volume of unconventional gas in the United States occurs in three specific resources - tight sands, gas shales, and coalbed methane. These three resources occur in numerous geologic basins all across the lower 48 States. According to the latest estimate by the National Petroleum Council, the volume of technically recoverable gas from these three resources is in excess of 293 trillion cubic feet (TCF).

In addition to being more accessible and having the potential of attracting serious industry participation, these three resources often occur at shallower depths under moderate to low pressure and temperature conditions. Thus, their exploitation may not hinge upon the development of the new materials and technologies that would have to be developed for handling the hostile environments prevailing in other unconventional environments.

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