Nanoscale imaging visualizes shale gas plays: New images reveal shale secrets

摘要

The appeal of gas as a clean-burning fuel factors heavily into future demand and current interest in gas shale reservoirs. By some estimates, the US has a secure domestic supply of natural gas for at least 200 years. The offset in conventional gas well decline has come from unconventional gas resources, specifically coalbed methane, tight gas sands, and gas shales.