Thursday, December 20, 2012

Is the U.S. Energy Boom being Oversold?

Is the U.S. Energy Boom being Oversold?

I attended the American Geophysical Union meeting in San Francisco two weeks ago at which I heard a very interesting presentation by David Hughes of the Post Carbon Institute. He is more pessimistic about future production potential from U.S. shale gas and tight oil formations than some other analysts. Here I report some of the data on tight oil production that led to his conclusion.A number of analysts have issued optimistic assessments of the future production potential of U.S. shale or tight oil. For example, the International Energy Agency…Read more...http://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/Is-the-U.S.-Energy-Boom-being-Oversold.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+oilpricecom+%28Oil+Price.com+Daily+News+Update%29

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