U.S. Shale Gas

(January 20, 2010) John Curtis, Professor of Geochemistry and Director of the Potential Gas Agency at the Colorado School of Mines, discusses a broad range of perspectives on the state of U.S. shale gas reserves and resources along with the industries and technologies that are involved in extracting and bringing these energy resources to market.

Stanford University
http://www.stanford.edu

Potential Gas Agency
http://www.ceri-mines.org/potentialgasagency.htm

Stanford Energy Seminar
http://energyseminar.stanford.edu

Stanford University Channel on YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/stanford

Category:

Education

Tags:

• energy
• shale gas
• reserves
• carbon
• environment
• natural gas
• emissions
• research

[bannor99]

Interesting talk but what about the hazards of hydraulic fracturing? Gasland documentary was an eye-opener

[bannor99]

@natasprotector Why was it necessary to exempt fracking from the Clean Water act, if there was no risk? Regarding methane, Scientific American reported that a return visit to examine 88 wells in Sublette County previously identified as contaminated found them so full of flammable gas, they couldn't be opened for fear of explosion. They also point out that the EPA 2004 report that was used to justify the exemption focused only on coal-bed methane deposits, not deep geologic drilling

[grunder20]

very different from the gas manufacturers that we are used to know.

[agapitoflores001]

Wow, the one who discovered this is just so brilliant.

[walkingstranger78]

All the brains of CEO-s of big industries

All the brains of students of School of Mines

Act as rulers of the world

Forgetting to use their intelligence to cure Greed

Forgetting that they could have grand-children

Forgetting that they could be grand-parents

Forgetting that they could have responsibility

Corporate states are the guiding forces in a consumer society

Common sense is not driven by economics

Leadership without wisdom and compassion is doomed to an end

[natasprotector]

@bannor99 no frac fluid gets into the water table period. only gas migration. rest of the water will come back over time, as long as the well is producing. it is collected on site and then taken somewhere to be treated and flushed back into the water supply when it meets the requirements of safe drinking water.

[bannor99]

@natasprotector Thanks to the only partially-documented list of chemicals in fracking fluid, there's a lot more than in the tap water than just methane. What happens to all that "produced" water, especially the nearly 50 percent of it that isn't recovered?

[natasprotector]

@bannor99 yes, methane wants to naturally come out of the rock to surface, it is a gravity issue, these people had methane in their water 20 years before drilling started, but josh douche bag fox wont report that, one person blamed drillers and got something free out of it so why wont more people cry wolf, you can get methane in a water well when you drill a water well, it all matters on where you make your decision to call home.

[bannor99]

@natasprotector Why do you say that? All those people with the water problems were mistaken?