In Eagle Ford Reality Check: The Nation's Top Tight Oil Play After a Year of Low Oil Prices, David Hughes—author of Drilling Deeper (which remains the most thorough independent analysis of U.S. shale gas and tight oil production ever...
Post Carbon Fellow David Hughes was quoted in this article at Bloomberg about shale oil writedowns due to the low oil price. From the article: “There was too much optimism built into their forecasts,” said David Hughes, a fellow...
Post Carbon Fellow David Hughes was quoted in this article at Penza News on output decline in the US shale oil industry. From the article: At the same time, according to David Hughes, earth scientist and research manager at...
The Bakken Play, located in North Dakota and Montana, is the birthplace of tight (shale) oil and in many ways the poster child of the so-called “shale revolution.” Between 2010 and 2014, oil production in North Dakota grew nearly...
In 2011, the EIA published a report that stated the Monterey Shale in California had 15.4 billion barrels of recoverable oil, or two-thirds of the then estimated recoverable tight oil in the US. The EIA subsequently downgraded its estimate...
In Bakken Reality Check: The Nation's Number Two Tight Oil Play After a Year of Low Oil Prices, David Hughes—author of Drilling Deeper (which likely remains the most thorough independent analysis of U.S. shale gas and tight...
Post Carbon Fellow David Hughes was quoted in this article on downward a revision in expected recoverable oil from the Monterey Shale Formation by the U.S. Geological Survey. From the article: A new U.S. Geological Survey says there...
Post Carbon Fellow David Hughes was quoted in this article about the prospects for liquid natural gas exports from British Columbia. From the article: Green said the numbers are based on estimates of how large B.C.’s resources are, as...
Much of the cost-benefit debate over fracking has come down to the perception of just how much domestic oil and gas it can produce and at what cost. To answer this question, policymakers, the media, and the general public...
In this update to Drilling Deeper, David Hughes explores how the EIA’s 2015 tight oil projections and assumptions have changed over the last year, and assesses the AEO2015 against both Drilling Deeper and up-to-date production data from key tight...