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International Natural Gas Production

Much Ado About Fracking

September 24, 2014 by admin

On Tuesday, September 17th, I attended a luncheon with the Denver Association of Business Economists (DABE) to hear Garret Nülle, an expert in Oil and Gas Economics speak. Mr. Nülle presented us with a comprehensive overview of the field, including projections of where fracking will go in the future. A few days later, I met with David Tameron, Senior Analyst for Wells Fargo Securities, regarding the role of fracking in the economy. The following post is the product of these conversations. 

From slides of Mr. Nülle's presentation
From slides of Mr. Nülle’s presentation

The popular term for Shale Drilling or Hydraulic Fracturing, “Fracking”, polarizes as many groups of people as other hot-button topics. But, like it or not, the energy investment community sees shale drilling as a permanent part of our energy source. The US has actually used fracking since the 1940s; as a part of oil and natural gas resources for the last 60-odd years, about 35,000 wells use the hydraulic fracturing method. An estimated 80% of natural gas is estimated to require hydraulic fracturing for extraction in the next decade. So, the number of rigs currently involved in production and the US market should continue as the most established for the next two decades.

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