Shale

Introduction Now, Australia urgently faces the resource issue. In this issue, Coal seam gas (CSG) has been focused for new resource. Australia has large reserves of CSG in high permeability reservoirs is one of the reason. By the way, CSG has been met with a mixture of praise and criticism that consideration should be made with regards to sustainability and how effect on Australian community or environment. Definition of ‘fracking’ Fracking is shorthand for the drilling of hydraulic fracturing.…

Shale Fracking Comparison Essay Two articles concerning Shale drilling and the environmental impact will be compared and contrasted in this essay. Is Shale Fracking safe or is it dangerous? “Shale Drilling Is a Disaster Waiting to Happen” written by Don Carns Jr. presents the idea that shale drilling is dangerous and that it is threatening the environment; while, in contrast “Unfounded Fears about Shale Gas Obscure Facts” written by Scott Cline suggests that in fact Carns Jr. has his…

This informative article by Lutz Kilian discusses shale oil and its effect on oil prices in the United States. Shale oil is a term used by the oil industry for oil that is obtained from low-permeability rock, and it has caused a resurgence of oil production in the United States. This type of oil production was not available until quite recently, because of several technological advances in the industry. Currently, shale oil production, mostly from western states, accounts for a sizeable amount…

Once used only rarely to extract from deep, conventional reservoirs of fossil fuels, fracking has evolved to a widely-used intensive process to retrieve natural gas from shallow, unconventional sources, such as shale rock, tight sands, and coal beds where the resource is not easily accessible (Food and Water Watch 2). Historically, the fracking procedure involved pumping a relatively small amount of acid into a clogged hole of a reservoir in order to allow the…

The Raton Basin In this paper the coal system of the Raton Baton basin will be analyzed and broken down into sections that include, structure and stratigraphy, coal quality, igneous intrusions, coal-bed methane, and the hydrocarbon production within the basin. The purpose of analyzing the Raton Basin is to understand coal diagenesis and the aspects of the basin that affect coal quality and production. Information for this paper has been gathered by several reports published by the United…

Horizontal drilling, also known as, fracking is a method of drilling into Shale to extract gas. Shale gas is abundant in the United States, which could mean energy independence. The amount of natural gas in the United States is equivalent to two amounts of oil in Saudi Arabia's. However, this process raises concerns, health concerns in particular. The luxury of drinking water out of the tap has been taken away from communities where fracking has hit. The economic benefits of fracking do not…

play is the largest operational shale play operating in the United States. This shale formation is proving to be full of wealth in resources enriched with petroleum and natural gas. Although experts have calculated the Marcellus shale to be enormous and have the ability to sustain America’s demands for the next one hundred plus years,…

because it has already been layered with minerals which will preserve it. Extinction is based on shallow marine shells. All of the marine wheel look very different, and can be broken up into different categories. Specifically the Cambrian Burgess Shale is a marine animal which is preserved by minerals. Therefore when it does eventually die, there would be evidence left behind.The beeches Trilobites Ordovician bed 4 centimeters thick is 4 centimeters thick and grows towards the upper Ordovician.…

celestial body. The Marcellus Shale is a rock that lies at the deepest earth’s surface of the Mid-Atlantic region. The formation of this rock contains an important volume of natural gas that is tripped inside some tiny spaces within the shale. The formation of this gas at the depth requires new advanced technologies in facilitating the drilling process. These drilling technologies that are accompanied by increased markets have significantly made exploration of the Marcellus shale to be highly…

Problem Statement Production from modern shale oil reservoirs is done typically through hydraulic fracturing in horizontal wells. Although this discovery has led to a massive increase in production in areas that were otherwise thought to be unprofitable, there is still an enormous amount of oil left in the reservoirs. It is estimated that oil recovery is less than 10% from shale oil reservoirs. 1 Of that 10%, is it estimated only 1-2% of the reserves are recoverable. With numbers so low, it is…