[Graeme]

Increase in Oil, Gas Drilling Projected

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'O')il and gas drilling on federal lands across the Rocky Mountain West could increase by more than 160 percent over the next two decades due in part to pro-industry regulations enacted by the Bush administration, according to a report by an environmental group.

The Washington, D.C.-based Wilderness Society analyzed drilling plans and said oil and gas exploration was poised to push into some of the West's most environmentally sensitive areas. That includes plans to drill in Colorado's Roan Plateau, the Upper Green River Basin in Wyoming and Montana's portion of the Powder River Basin.

More than 126,000 new oil and gas wells have been approved or are under review for federal lands in Wyoming, Colorado, Montana, Utah and New Mexico, according to the Wilderness Society report. Wyoming would see the most activity: 58,000 new wells.

[Tanada]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Graeme', '[')b]Increase in Oil, Gas Drilling Projected

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'O')il and gas drilling on federal lands across the Rocky Mountain West could increase by more than 160 percent over the next two decades due in part to pro-industry regulations enacted by the Bush administration, according to a report by an environmental group.

The Washington, D.C.-based Wilderness Society analyzed drilling plans and said oil and gas exploration was poised to push into some of the West's most environmentally sensitive areas. That includes plans to drill in Colorado's Roan Plateau, the Upper Green River Basin in Wyoming and Montana's portion of the Powder River Basin.

More than 126,000 new oil and gas wells have been approved or are under review for federal lands in Wyoming, Colorado, Montana, Utah and New Mexico, according to the Wilderness Society report. Wyoming would see the most activity: 58,000 new wells.

[Doly]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Tanada', 'T')hen maybe they would understand, its all gonna get drilled sooner rather than later, and if you help controll the how you much improve the results from the viewpoint of impact on the environment.

[WatchfulEye]

My understanding is as follows:

Allow the oil companies in, straight-away, but enforce stringent environmental controls.

If we don't let them in now, when oil is $250 a barrel, cars are abandonned on highways and people are freezing to death in their homes, those field, sure as heck will be drilled, and tapped at such urgency, that environmental concerns will be secondary.

[Tanada]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Doly', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Tanada', 'T')hen maybe they would understand, its all gonna get drilled sooner rather than later, and if you help controll the how you much improve the results from the viewpoint of impact on the environment.

[billp]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'M')ore than 126,000 new oil and gas wells have been approved or are under review for federal lands in Wyoming, Colorado, Montana, Utah and New Mexico, according to the Wilderness Society report. Wyoming would see the most activity: 58,000 new wells.

By comparison, the five states had 77,000 wells producing oil or natural gas as of earlier this year. Natural gas at Wyoming's two main trading hubs is selling at 30 percent of national average, cutting off millions of dollars in state revenue.

[peripato]

Drilling doesn't guarantee they'll find anything worthwile, no matter how much money and hi-tech gadgetry they throw at it. After all there is only so much of the stuff under the earth's crust, and most of it's already been found, economics can't change that...

[Tanada]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('peripato', 'D')rilling doesn't guarantee they'll find anything worthwile, no matter how much money and hi-tech gadgetry they throw at it. After all there is only so much of the stuff under the earth's crust, and most of it's already been found, economics can't change that...

[Blacksmith]

There will be a lot of nonconventional gas sources drilled in the near future such as Coal Based Methane and Shale Gas and the drilling and completion methods will be different.

http://www.gandytec.com/tube.html

[peripato]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Blacksmith', 'T')here will be a lot of nonconventional gas sources drilled in the near future such as Coal Based Methane and Shale Gas and the drilling and completion methods will be different.

http://www.gandytec.com/tube.html

[Blacksmith]

Natural gas can be converted to liquid, but has to be cooled and pressurized, Liquid Natural Gas (LNG). LNG can be brought to centres of use instead of flared.

I think you mean permeablity rather than porosity. Shale has up to 15% porosity and coal can have up to 2% in the form of cleats. Pearmeability can be very high to very low depending on fractures and associated permeable sands.

RCCD means formation damage is kept to a minimum.

Production from sweet spots can be high though the natural gas has to be pressurized.

I once had the use of a truck run on natural gas, you could get about 250 kilometres per fill. It was much cheaper than either gasoline, desiel or electricity and the only byproducts were water and carbon dioxide.

Shale gas and coal gas methane have long production lives and have enormous reserve potential.

Energy out to energy in is about 0.7 to 14 and averages about 3 to 4.

[peripato]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Blacksmith', 'N')atural gas can be converted to liquid, but has to be cooled and pressurized, Liquid Natural Gas (LNG). LNG can be brought to centres of use instead of flared.

I think you mean permeablity rather than porosity. Shale has up to 15% porosity and coal can have up to 2% in the form of cleats. Pearmeability can be very high to very low depending on fractures and associated permeable sands.

RCCD means formation damage is kept to a minimum.

Production from sweet spots can be high though the natural gas has to be pressurized.

I once had the use of a truck run on natural gas, you could get about 250 kilometres per fill. It was much cheaper than either gasoline, desiel or electricity and the only byproducts were water and carbon dioxide.

Shale gas and coal gas methane have long production lives and have enormous reserve potential.

Energy out to energy in is about 0.7 to 14 and averages about 3 to 4.