Post Carbon Fellow David Hughes’ independent report on the prospects for a liquid natural gas bonanza in British Columbia was picked up in ths article at Globe and Mail. From the article: Mr. Hughes is a fellow of the...
Post Carbon Institute’s report by Fellow David Hughes, Drilling California: A Reality Check on the Monterey Shale, was cited in this article on rethinking fracking in California. From the article: A recent report, “Drilling California,” reveals that the economic...
Post Carbon Fellow David Hughes report for Post Carbon Institute Drilling California: A Reality Check on the Monterey Shale was cited in this article on the prospects for the Monterey shale formation in the LA Times. From the article:...
Post Carbon Fellow David Hughes report Drilling California on the Monterey Shale was reviewed by Chris Nelder at Smart Planet. From the article: The bottom line from Hughes’ analysis is stark. Where the USC study estimated that 4,112 wells...
Post Carbon Fellow and author of the PCI report Drilling California: A Reality Check on the Monterey Shale David Hughes was interviewed by Jim Scott at Kern Golden Empire. From the article: On Tuesday, a geoscientist from Canada released...
Drilling California: A Reality Check on the Monterey Shale provides the first publicly available empirical analysis of actual oil production data from the Monterey Formation. It lays out some of the play’s fundamental characteristics compared to other tight oil...
Post Carbon Fellow David Hughes’ research was mentioned in this article on shale gas at the Economist. From the article: Some pessimists worry about the speed at which shale-bed wells run dry. David Hughes, a geologist at the Post...
Post Carbon Fellow David Hughes was quoted in an article at USA Today about fracking. From the article: Many wells behind the energy gush are quickly losing productivity, and some areas could hit peak levels sooner than the U.S....
A fascinating talk by J. David Hughes given at Cornell: “The Energy Sustainability Dilemma : Powering the Future in a Finite World.” Most of the easy energy is gone. This was from oil which was plentiful, and easy to...
Post Carbon Fellow David Hughes’ report Drill Baby Drill? was quoted in this article on scientists reservations about the future prospects for shale oil and gas. From the article: “The many trends of declining EROIs suggest that depletion and...