The EROI of conventional Canadian natural gas production

Sustainability

Volumn 3, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 2080-2104

  Freise, Jon ^a  

^a NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Energy return on investment; EROI; Net energy; Western canada

Indexed keywords

EID: 84867358287     PISSN: 20711050     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/su3112080     Document Type: Article

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