Boom or bust? Mapping out the known unknowns of global shale gas production potential

Energy Economics

Volumn 49, Issue , 2015, Pages 581-587

  Hilaire, JérÔme ^a   Bauer, Nico ^a   Brecha, Robert J ^a,b  

^a POTSDAM INSTITUTE FOR CLIMATE IMPACT RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DAYTON   (United States)

Author keywords

ERR; Extraction cost curve; Global; Shale gas

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; COSTS; DEPOSITS; EXTRACTION; GAS INDUSTRY; GASES; PETROLEUM DEPOSITS; SHALE GAS;

BOTTOM UP METHODS; CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION; EXTRACTION COSTS; GLOBAL; GLOBAL PRODUCTION; PRODUCTION TECHNOLOGY; RECOVERABLE RESOURCE; TOP DOWN APPROACHES;

COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS;

BOTTOM-UP APPROACH; GAS PRODUCTION; GLOBALIZATION; HYDROCARBON RESERVOIR; RECOVERY; SHALE; TOP-DOWN APPROACH;

EID: 84928251707     PISSN: 01409883     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eneco.2015.03.017     Document Type: Article

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