David Hughes’ report for Post Carbon Institute, Drilling California: A Reality Check on the Monterey Shale, was referenced in this article on the EIA’s recent downgrade of recoverable oil from the Monterey play. From the article: Last night, the...
Post Carbon Fellow David Hughes was quoted in this article on the Monterey shale in Salon. From the article: “The narrative of fracking in the Monterey Shale as necessary for energy independence just had a big hole blown in...
Post Carbon Fellow David Hughes was referenced in this article on the EIA’s Monterey shale downgrade. From the article: The findings serve a major blow to U.S. energy policy, which considered the deposit a “black gold mine.” But they...
Post Carbon Fellow David Hughes was quoted in the LA Times as the EIA downgraded estimate for Monterey shale oil production by 96%. From the article: “The narrative of fracking in the Monterey Shale as necessary for energy independence...
Post Carbon Fellow David Hughes was quoted in this editorial at Bloomberg questioning assumptions around US energy independence. From the article: The problems arise when you look at how quickly production from these new, unconventional wells dries up. David...
“Natural gas output from US’ Marcellus edges closer to 15 Bcf/d: EIA” declared the headline in Platts that attracted my attention, since the latest data on the Marcellus shale gas play of PA and WV indicated production was less...
Post Carbon Fellow David Hughes was quoted in this article on replacing Russian gas with US shale gas. From the article: A useful summary of the shale gas illusion comes from a recent analysis of the actual results of...
Post Carbon Fellow David Hughes Drill Baby Drill? report was quoted this article on the prospects for US oil independence. From the article: But how likely is this? As the EIA explains at length here, you need to lay on a...
Post Carbon Fellow David Hughes, and author of the report Drilling California: A Reality Check on the Monterey Shale, was quoted in the LA times. From the article: David Hughes, a geoscientist at the Santa Rosa-based Post Carbon Institute,...
On March 27, 2014 “Drilling California” author J. David Hughes was joined by business leader and Next Generation co-founder Tom Steyer and Robert Collier, a research fellow with Next Generation, to discuss the prospects of developing California’s Monterey Shale...