Horizontal Drilling Unlocks Mega Canadian Gas Play

摘要

New well techniques have unlocked a potentially huge natural gas play that borders the Canadian provinces of British Columbia and Alberta, with various third-party estimates putting original gas in place (OGIP) in a wide range of between 50 Tcf and 700 Tcf.The Montney tight gas sands play "may surpass the Barnett Shale in resource potential," wrote Raymond James & Associates Inc. energy analysts J. Marshall Adkins, Pavel Molchanov and Andrew Bradford. "Any way you slice it, this could be big."