PRA's Shale Experience
"Natural gas is up now - way up - and it's changing how we think about energy
throughout the world. In a single year, the usually sober U.S. Energy Information
Administration more than doubled its estimates of recoverable domestic shale-gas
resources to 827 trillion cu. ft. (23 trillion cu m), more than 34 times the amount of
gas the U.S. uses in a year. Together with supplies from conventional gas sources,
the U.S. may now have enough gas to last a century at current consumption rates.
(By comparison, the U.S. has less than nine years of oil reserves.) Nor is the U.S.
alone." Could Shale Gas Power the World?, Time, March 31, 2011
"Words absolutely cannot describe what is going on." Special Report: The Great Shale Gas Rush, National Geographic October,
2010.
"The shale gas revolution has had a significant impact. In less than five years, the
United States has gone from seeking new sources of gas overseas to being self-
sufficient. For the first time in nearly a decade, the U.S. has regained the position
of being the world's largest producer of natural gas." "Europe is the new frontier in
the shale gas rush, and big oil companies see shale as the next big thing." The Financial Times Ltd., May, 2010.
PRA began analyzing shale gas data long before the current explosion in technology and
production. Our shale projects include:
- Devonian and Ordovician shale gas studies in New York and Pennsylvania
- North Dakota Bakken shale oil study
- North Dakota Bakken shale oil production
- Utah Mancos shale project
- East Texas Bossier project
- Carboniferous Clare Shale in Ireland
- Eagle Ford shale shale study
In 2010, PRA won the AAPG Energy Minerals Division President's Certificate for Excellence in Presentation for The Marcellus of New York Through Time, presented at the AAPG 2009 Annual Meeting in Denver.
Continuing with our over 25 year tradition of software engineering based on a firm foundation of science coupled with technology, we have added several modules to BasinMod for optimizing shale gas exploration, including our Shale Gas Production Model(SGPM)*. Our proprietary work flow takes the user from characterizing the source rock/reservoir to identifying sweet spots to simulation of production.
Please contact us for more information.
*Developed in conjunction with SiteLark LLC
Model methane adsorption using Langmuir isotherms.
