The United States is moving away from the necessity to import large volumes of natural gas for its domestic requirements. Over the last few years it has become possible to produce vast amounts of shale gas that was previously uneconomic to extract. Between 2007 and 2012, shale gas production in the U.S. rose from 1.3…
The following table is a combination of the information provided by the study “An Assessment of 137 Shale Formations in 41 Countries outside the United States”, June 2013, produced by the Energy Information Administration and Advanced Resources International, Inc (EIA-ARI), and the “British Petroleum Statistical Review of World Energy, 2013”. In order to make the…
Algeria Algeria’s hydrocarbons basins hold two significant shale gas and shale oil formations: the Silurian Tannezuft Shale and the Devonian Frasnian Shale. The Energy Information Administration, Advanced Resources International, Inc (EIA-ARI) report World Shale Gas and Shale Oil Resource Assessment, June 2013, which analyses the Ghadames (Berkine) and Illizi Basins in eastern Algeria, the Timimoun,…