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The AAPG/Datapages Combined Publications Database
Houston Geological Society Bulletin
Abstract
Abstract: The Spillover Effect: “The Quest for Coal
Bed
Methane
and Shale Gas Outside North America”
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Global Unconventional Gas Team
ConocoPhillips
The boom in unconventional
exploration in North America,
mainly in shale gas and coal bed
methane is spilling over internationally
with Europe, Asia, the Far
East, and Australia all claiming huge
values for resource potential, many
in excess of 400 TCFG. This quest
for unconventional gas outside North America is persuading
major companies (ExxonMobil, Shell, ConocoPhillips, Statoil,
etc.) that they need the expertise acquired by US independents
(Chesapeake, XTO, Anadarko,
Burlington, etc.) to apply the
knowledge they have acquired from
the San Juan and Powder River
basins and the Barnett, Marcellus,
Haynesville, etc. plays and the
expertise they have developed in
drilling and well completion to
unleash the potential of international basins and plays. But this
stampede across the pond comes with some challenges both in
terms of the subsurface and surface. No two basins are the same
and the US analogs are unlikely to match the geology of Europe
and Asia. At the end of the day, the geology will determine
whether the rest of the world can experience the unconventional
gas explosion that the US is seeing.