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...
Post Carbon Fellow David Hughes work on the US shale boom was reported in this article at Baltic Review. From the article: David Hughes, a geoscientist and former team leader on unconventional gas for the Canadian Potential Gas Committee,...
Post Carbon Fellow David Hughes was quoted in this article which questions the shale boom. David Hughes wrote the PCI report Drill Baby Drill: Can Unconventional Fuels Usher in a New Era of Energy Abundance. From the article: Whether...
Post Carbon Fellow David Hughes report Drill Baby Drill was quoted in this op-ed on the prospects for hydraulic fracturing in Michigan. From the article: The Hydraulic Fracturing in Michigan Integrated Assessment, in addition to another non-industry funded study...
Interview by Steve Andrews, ASPO-USA Q: Andrews–Production from shale oil plays has been impressive and has taken the national energy dialogue by storm. When did you sense that the shale oil plays had the kind of muscle they are...