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Shale gas technology

09/27/2010
By Guntis Moritis
Development of shale gas has changed the dynamics of gas markets in the US, and shales may also become a major source of gas in other parts of the world.Only a few years ago various forecasts said the US would need to import considerable amounts of gas as LNG, but with the development of shale gas, the US now is becoming self-sufficient in gas and may even become a gas exporter.Enabling technologiesSeveral technologies have accounted for the explosive growth in shale gas in the last few years although production of gas from shales has occurred for many years with the first production in the 1820s, according to George E. King, Apache Corp. in the paper "Thirty Years of Gas Shale Fract...
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