Energy return on energy invested for tight gas wells in the appalachian basin, United States of America

Sustainability

Volumn 3, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1986-2008

  Sell, Bryan ^a   Murphy, David ^b   Hall, Charles A S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Appalachian basin; Depletion; EROI; Indiana county; Natural gas; Tight gas

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864099797     PISSN: 20711050     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/su3101986     Document Type: Article

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