Shale Gas to the Rescue?

Tar Sands and Shale.

Not through the cliff dwelling.

Are you driving her car at Pebble Beach?

Despite the hype about the shale gas revolution, the extraction cost of (onshore) conventional gas remains below that of shale gas.

Two thirds of the world's shale is in the US.

They're running the Pebble Beach Road Races later on next month.

The Bowland Shale, which lies beneath Lancashire and Yorkshire, contains 50 more gas than the combined reserves of two of the largest fields in the United States, the Barnett Shale and the Marcellus Shale.

This that essetnially the lithisphere is kind of riding on top of we call this the asthenosphere. So when we talk about the lithosphere and asthenosphere we're really talking about machanical layers.

The nitrates come from our own mines, the saltpeter from deposits to the south.

Shale gas wells deplete far more rapidly than conventional fields do.

The outer layer, the solid layer is the lithosphere, the more fluid layer right below that is the asthenosphere.

Tell him to go in through the cliff dwelling, shore it up and get him out fast.

Weathering processes initiated by organisms can also free oxygen from the lithosphere.

Now, what would the law be doing up there in that old Indian cliff dwelling?

I'm proud to be working in the industry of the future.

And when we talk about the lithosphere we are now talking about the mechanical make up. We are now talking about what is solid and what is not solid. So this is the lithosphere.

Compare this to the opportunity of the Bowland Shale. If, by 2020, the UK could exploit its reserves there at just one third the intensity of the exploitation of the Barnett and Marcellus Shales today, the outcome would be phenomenal.

However, the rise of fracking should be viewed with caution Poorly managed fracking facilities can leak methane, a potent greenhouse gas and shale oil, to which many frackers are turning, is much more emissions intensive than shale gas.

The advent of shale gas has confused the energy debate even more. If gas is substituted for coal, it can be a useful bridge to a low carbon future.

Shale gas is abundant in Europe and North America, in contrast to oil and gas.

We found out that we could go to the source rock, which were the carboniferous shales in the basins.

Shale is an exceptionally poor fuel, pound for pound containing about one third the energy of a box of breakfast cereal.

The plan highlights the need to take advantage of the opportunities afforded by shale gas and newly discovered oil reserves.

Identify potentially toxic overburden or exposed strata and screen with suitable material to prevent mobilization of toxins

The surrounding scene shows a struggle between civilized humans and the wild and ferocious animals.

With respect to climate change, however, the effects of greater reliance on shale gas are mixed.

Jorma Ollila, Chairman of Royal Dutch Shell, described the global map of major shale oil and gas deposits.

When people talk about plate tectonics, they shouldn't say crustal plates. They should call these lithospheric plates.

Even the much heralded shale gas revolution is a lot of hype 160 similar to the gold rushes and stock bubbles of the past. Shale gas wells deplete far more rapidly than conventional fields do.

By 2035, shale gas is projected to account for roughly one half of total US energy production.

Seamounts provide data on movements of tectonic plates on which they ride, and on the rheology of the underlying lithosphere.

And now, to introduce our guest of honor, we hear from a man... known from the rocky coast of Maine to the Golden Gate in California.

Maybe Europe will become a leader in advanced fracking when the shale gas deposits in the US have already been exhausted.

It would enhance US economic competitiveness, especially relative to Europe, given the lower costs involved in the extraction of shale gas.

Indeed, thanks to the new techniques in hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling, shale gas may well become the dominant energy resource of the future.

For example, fractures of the petrous temporal bone can selectively damage the nerve, as can aneurysms of the intracavernous carotid artery.

Others, however, have pointed out that the differences indicate the inclusion of a small component of near surface material from the lithosphere.

The phosphorus cycle is the biogeochemical cyclethat describes the movement of phosphorus through the lithosphere, hydrosphere, and biosphere.

And we have leart in previous videos that the combination of solid part of the upper mantle and the crust combined the we call that the lithosphere.

The boom in this so called shale gas production has allowed the United States to become almost self sufficient in natural gas.

PRAGUE In late June, the British Geological Survey announced the world s largest shale gas field.

The most promising breakthrough may well be the discovery of huge reserves of shale gas all over the planet.

Shale gas could thus reduce dependency on OPEC oil and gas while reducing carbon emission.

Annual growth in shale gas production has increased from 17 between 2000 and 2006 to 48 between 2006 and 2010.