Full Title: n/a (Speech for NYS Smart Grid and the Energy Economy at Manhattan Institute Conference)
Author(s): D. Manning, A. Scheidt
Publisher(s): n/a
Publication Date: February 1, 2010
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Description (excerpt):
The ability to supplement domestic natural gas production with imported gas from Canada and LNG, substitute gas from coal, landfill and biogas remains, but the major difference is the tremendous estimated natural gas resource potential attributed to natural gas produced from shale.
New drilling and completion technologies have allowed the inclusion of this significant resource volume in the U.S. undiscovered resource base. At current levels of natural gas consumption, it is estimated that this resource potential has the ability to meet our increased needs for as much as 100 years.
There are a number of factors which have contributed to this increase in natural gas reserves.