Assessing the economic margins of sweet spots in shale gas plays

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Volumn 30, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 99-106

  Weijermars, Ruud ^a,b   Linden, Joost Van Der ^c  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b Alboran Energy Strategy Consultants   (Netherlands)

^c DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NATURAL GAS; PRICE DYNAMICS; SHALE;

EID: 84871255388     PISSN: 02635046     EISSN: 13652397     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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