FORBES (June 5, 2009) -- Haynesville Shale (LA and Eastern Texas, discovered in Dec. 2008) is touted as the largest natural gas field in the continental U.S. About 200 feet thick, the stream of shale lurks two miles under the pastures, trailer homes and piney woods of the region. The 3 million-acre formation stretches into East Texas and holds some 251 trillion cubic feet of recoverable natural gas. There could be enough gas to satisfy domestic demand for a decade, if market prices can justify going after it.
It's too early to say exactly how lucrative the Haynesville will be, but with impressive initial recovery rates, the production rush is on. East Texas and Northwest Louisiana have been producing oil and gas for decades, but new technology has made this new, deep play worth trying for. More than $3.2 billion has already been paid to private landowners in bonuses for leases and royalty checks. State and local tax revenues boomed by at least $153.3 million, according to an economic impact study released in April.
OIL AND GAS INVESTOR (May 26, 2009)-- The Haynesville shale may be the biggest natural gas play in the U.S. today. “Some think it may be one of the biggest gas fields in the world,” says Questar Corp. chairman, president and chief executive Keith Rattie. “And the irony here is that, until mid-March of 2008, very few people in the industry and certainly nobody in Washington had ever heard of the Haynesville shale.”
“The Haynesville shale is perhaps one of the best illustrations of that stunning breakthrough in our ability to exploit the resource base in this country,” Rattie says in describing whether the U.S. has sufficient natural gas supply to support conversion of more U.S. energy demand off oil and coal to natural gas.
“What we’ve seen in recent years is that technology that was first adapted to exploit gas in the Barnett shale in the Fort Worth Basin in Texas has now been applied to a series of major new shale plays that just a few years ago most observers thought would never be commercially viable. “We have the Fayetteville shale, the Haynesville shale, the Marcellus shale and, in Canada, there are the Horn River shales. You’re going to see horizontal drilling technology and, in particular, multi-fracture-stimulation technology applied to rock that we thought was unproducible just a few years ago.”
At the current rate of U.S. natural gas consumption, many gas-market observers suggest North America hosts a 100-year supply of proven, producible reserves.
FORGET THE WILDERNESS (June 23, 2003) --Forget about terrorists. Don't give another thought to SARS. The single greatest threat to the U.S. right now comes from a critical shortage of natural gas. The impending crisis will affect all consumers directly in the pocket book, and it may well mean that some people won't survive next winter. The problem is not with wells or pumps. The problem is that North America is running out and there is no replacement supply.
HT: Benjamin
It's too early to say exactly how lucrative the Haynesville will be, but with impressive initial recovery rates, the production rush is on. East Texas and Northwest Louisiana have been producing oil and gas for decades, but new technology has made this new, deep play worth trying for. More than $3.2 billion has already been paid to private landowners in bonuses for leases and royalty checks. State and local tax revenues boomed by at least $153.3 million, according to an economic impact study released in April.
OIL AND GAS INVESTOR (May 26, 2009)-- The Haynesville shale may be the biggest natural gas play in the U.S. today. “Some think it may be one of the biggest gas fields in the world,” says Questar Corp. chairman, president and chief executive Keith Rattie. “And the irony here is that, until mid-March of 2008, very few people in the industry and certainly nobody in Washington had ever heard of the Haynesville shale.”
“The Haynesville shale is perhaps one of the best illustrations of that stunning breakthrough in our ability to exploit the resource base in this country,” Rattie says in describing whether the U.S. has sufficient natural gas supply to support conversion of more U.S. energy demand off oil and coal to natural gas.
“What we’ve seen in recent years is that technology that was first adapted to exploit gas in the Barnett shale in the Fort Worth Basin in Texas has now been applied to a series of major new shale plays that just a few years ago most observers thought would never be commercially viable. “We have the Fayetteville shale, the Haynesville shale, the Marcellus shale and, in Canada, there are the Horn River shales. You’re going to see horizontal drilling technology and, in particular, multi-fracture-stimulation technology applied to rock that we thought was unproducible just a few years ago.”
At the current rate of U.S. natural gas consumption, many gas-market observers suggest North America hosts a 100-year supply of proven, producible reserves.
FORGET THE WILDERNESS (June 23, 2003) --Forget about terrorists. Don't give another thought to SARS. The single greatest threat to the U.S. right now comes from a critical shortage of natural gas. The impending crisis will affect all consumers directly in the pocket book, and it may well mean that some people won't survive next winter. The problem is not with wells or pumps. The problem is that North America is running out and there is no replacement supply.
HT: Benjamin
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