Post Carbon Institute’s latest report by David Hughes on the prospects for shale gas and tight oil was featured in this article at Cleantechnica. From the article: If you are one of those people who smell the stench of...
Drilling Deeper reviews the twelve shale plays that account for 82% of the tight oil production and 88% of the shale gas production in the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) reference case forecasts through 2040. It utilizes all available...
Post Carbon Fellow David Hughes’ work on the shale bubble was featured in this article at Vice. From the article: America’s political elites are embracing the promise of American energy independence — and that, Hughes believes, is pure folly....
Post Carbon Fellow David Hughes was quoted in this article on prospects for US shale gas and tight oil in the Financial Times. From the article: David Hughes, a geologist and one of the leading shale sceptics, believes that...
Post Carbon Fellow David Hughes was quoted in this Newsweek article looking at whether the US oil boom might be a bubble. From the article: Observers like Berman and Hughes believe the U.S. needs to prepare for a time...
Post Carbon Fellow David Hughes was quoted in this article on shale gas prospects. From the article: After studying production data from 65,000 wells from 31 different unconventional shale rock formations in 2012, David Hughes predicted big trouble ahead...
Post Carbon Fellow David Hughes and author of the PCI report Drill Baby Drill? was quoted in this article about natural gas prospects in the US. From the article: Shale gas now accounts for half of all U.S. production,...
An interview with Post Carbon Fellow David Hughes on how the oil industry managed to overestimate the amount of extractable oil in a California shale formation by a truly astonishing amount: about fourteen billion barrels. Listen on CBC Radio....
Post Carbon Fellow David Hughes was heavily quoted in this article on the Monterey shale downgrade at CNBC. From the article: “At some point we’re going to hit a wall,” Hughes said. “Monterey was a huge field wiped out...
Post Carbon Fellow David Hughes was quoted in this article at DeSmog Blog investigating the links between the EIA’s John Krohn and the fracking industry. From the article: Krohn has also co-authored two articles for “Today in Energy!” painting...