A Barrel Full

The Wall Street Journal has a good article about the impact of Shale Gas on energy, economics and politics.
Huge discoveries of natural gas promise to shake up the energy markets and geopolitics. And that’s just for starters.
Among its claims:
Ending cartels
the rise of gas power seemed likely to doom the world’s consumers to a repeat of […]

We don’t know yet whether it will turn out to be Russia’s worse nightmare, or just a useful diversification of Poland’s energy needs. Polish Shale Gas is certainly not short of interested parties these days though.
Canada’s Talisman is the latest.
San Leon Energy PLC is pleased to announce that its decision to enter into the Baltic […]

That is the boast of a number of US natural gas producers. They claim that thanks to non conventional gas reserves, the USA now has gas to last for a century. Not everyone is convinced.
The promise of enough natural gas to last the United States more than 100 years based on discoveries of vast shale […]

Hardly a day goes by without Shale Gas being in the news. BG is making a significant acquisition in the area.
BG Group has announced the closing of the upstream and midstream acquisitions as part of the previously announced alliance with EXCO Resources Inc.
EXCO is a company with significant shale gas  resources, and presumably not enough […]