Technology,efficiencies keys to resource expansion

摘要

At the core of every successful unconventional gas play are two common themes;the continuous search for improvements in technology and the relentless pursuit of cost and operating efficiencies.These two themes have transformed the previously overlooked uneconomic resources in tight gas sands,coalbed methane,and gas shales into today's largest single source of domestic natural gas production.The basic process,repeated over and over again,is that one or more new technology concepts lead to breakthroughs that transform the play from a technical curiosity to economic feasibility.