Western Tight Sands Gas Development: Economic and Regulatory Aspects of Blanket Resource Supply. Final Report March 1981-May 1983

摘要

The purpose of the study was to assess the recoverable quantities and extraction costs of western tight sands gas from blanket formations. Blanket tight sands gas is found in continuous rock strata of low permeability that often requires stimulation by massive hydraulic fracturing. Families of marginal cost or resource supply curves were derived to present the economic results and illustrate the sensitivity of the recoverable resource and extraction costs to parameter changes. It was estimated that approximately 130 TCF of economically recoverable blanket sands gas remains to be discovered.