VIDEO: Welcome, Introductions, and Opening Remarks, and Session 1: Why All the Hype About Shale Plays? Why Here? Why Now?

• Main Authors: Squillace, Mark, Foss, Michelle Michot, Nehring, Richard, Udall, Randy
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Colorado Law Scholarly Commons 2010
• Subjects: shale plays; shale gas; U.S. natural gas; high altitude; reliability; deliverability; gas supply; greenhouse gas policy; GHG policy; electric power; coal; renewables; gas drilling; environment; oil and gas tax policies; natural gas resource assessments; technically recoverable; natural gas endowment; BEG; Bureau of Economic Geology; CEE; Center for Energy Economics; GTI; Gas Technology Institute; PGC; Potential Gas Committee; USGS; United States Geological Survey; major shale basins; Schlumberger; Mowry; Gammon; Excello/Mulky; New Albany; Antrim; Utica; Horton Bluff; Niobrara; Green River; Baxter; Mancos; McClure; Monterey; Cane Creek; Hovenweep; Lewis and Mancos; Pierre; Palo Duro; Barnett and Woodford; Pearsall; Barnett; Haynesville/Bossier; Woodford; Caney and Woodford; Fayetteville; Floyd and Conasauga/Neal; Chattanooga; Huron; Marcellus; hedge for offshore; Pacific offshore; Alaska offshore; Atlantic offshore; Gulf offshore; Barnett shale development; rate of water use; hydraulic fracturing; fracking; fracing; NETL; National Energy Technology Laboratory; produced water; recycling; water demand; NETL Produced Water MIS; NETL Frac Technologies; Marcellus mapped frac treatments; electron imagery; natural fractures; shale gas pores; carbon content; Nanodarcy; advanced stimulation technology; decline curves; water disposal; enhanced recovery; field life; cash operating costs; price trends; oil prices; wellhead prices; price level and volatility; average price; wellhead; city gate; residential; commercial; industrial; net generation by energy source; natural gas; nuclear; petroleum; hydro; ERCOT; fuel type; Electric Reliability Council of Texas; peak day; natural gas steam units; combined-cycle gas turbines; renewable energy; LNG; liquidified natural gas; beyond unconventional; role of natural gas; U.S. energy mix; benefits; lower carbon electric power; industrial revitalization; frac water issues; optimal dispatch of electric power; shale gas development; shale gas megaplays; oil; U.S. energy supply; annual natural gas production by category; conventional sources; transitional sources; unconventional sources; unconventional natural gas; production by type; tight sandstones; tight carbonates; coalbed methane; CBM; U.S. gas resources; EIA; Energy Information Administration; proved; probable; possible; speculative; trillion cubic feet; TCF; high uncertainty; future supply; years remaining; large resource; six potential megaplays; Northeast; world class plays; relatively low cost; drilling cutbacks; shale gas potential in the Rockies; GOM production; Gulf of Mexico; shale gas economics; costs of recovery; large resources drive price down; operators are reducing costs; policy implications; outlook; cautious optimism; supply continuity; expansion of current markets; electrical generation; displace fuel oil; new markets; CNG; Compressed Natural Gas; transportation; shale oil is misleading; pure shales; other rock types; poor reservoir oil plays; Middle Bakken; Williston Basin; Permian Basin; Prudhoe Bay; U.S. crude oil production; low recovery rates; large in-place resources; stabilizes U.S. oil production; offsetting declines; Climate; Energy and Utilities Law; Energy Policy; Environmental Health and Protection; Environmental Law; Environmental Policy; Hydraulic Engineering; Natural Resource Economics; Natural Resources and Conservation; Natural Resources Law; Natural Resources Management and Policy; Gas; and Energy; and Mineral Law; Science and Technology Law; State and Local Government Law; Sustainability; Water Law; Water Resource Management; Austin; Pacific; Eia; Bakken; Alaska
• Online Access: https://scholar.law.colorado.edu/shale-plays-in-intermountain-west/11; https://youtu.be/OfGUl894bUo

VIDEO: 8:30 a.m. - 8:35 a.m. Welcome, Introductions, and Opening Remarks; Speaker: Mark Squillace, Director, Natural Resources Law Center, University of Colorado Law School 8:35 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. SESSION 1: Why All the Hype About Shale Plays? Why Here? Why Now? Moderator: William Boyd, University of...