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Ora... mesi fa vi ho scritto che questa fase sarebbe stata inevitabile, ovvero aziende che falliscono, e quindi la fase di consolidamento del settore.
L'ho scritto? Si Lo hai letto? Si, visto che mi hai risposto al post nella pagina anteriore dove ti h portato cosa scritto, ma sono buono, te lo rimetto qui:
Come in tutti i settori in forte espansione, anche il settore dello shale dovra' passare per una fase di consolidamento, quindi molte aziende ci lascieranno le penne, letteralmente, altre, specie quelle che aumentano la produttivita' per pozzo saranno in una posizione migliore sia per resistere l' ondata inevitabile della consolidazione ma anche per crescere.
Tali dinamiche sono normali e da aspettarsi, sucedette nel campo delle ferrovie, cosi come piu' recentemente nell' Internet, nulla di nuovo sotto il sole.
Shale Oil USA: doccia fredda in arrivo?
Ergo..chi ci ha preso? TU no, che dicevi che era non sostenibile a 100$, cosa che invece, ovviamente, Era.. visto che si e dovuti passare attorno ai 55$ (per certo, vuol dire quindi che quando vi si diceva che il BE era attorno ai 60$ vi si era dato un dato reale e corretto, quindi siamo 3 su 3 di vostre affermazioni errate, e giuste di qualcun altro... Se vuoi ti posti i links dove ci sono le affermazioni.. ma so già' farai finta di non leggere vero...?)
Caro Metabo, facci la previsione su, cosi ci si divertira' a riprenderla, ed ad aggiungerla all altre da te fate ed ad ora risultate essere appunto errate, (la lista si allunga).![]()
Globalizzazione..... si grazie.


Se ancora non era chiara la distinzione fra shale oil & shale gas:
Texas-based Comstock Resources weeks ago offered a sliver of hope the Haynesville Shale may be getting renewed attention from the industry.
The independent energy company announced plans to suspend its oil-directed drilling activity in shale plays in Texas and Mississippi and move two rigs to Northeast Louisiana where it would start up drilling for natural gas in the Haynesville Shale. Comstock expects to spend $161 million drilling 14 horizontal wells in the Haynesville and overlaying Bossier Shale, according to a news release issued Dec. 18.
The first well was spudded last week and the second rig is expected to move into DeSoto Parish at month's end or in early February. Even though natural gas prices have dropped slightly since the announcement — the price was $3.14 mmBtu last week — Comstock officials believe if the price hovers around $3 the company "will still see some pretty decent returns," said Gary Guyton in the company's investor relations division.
Comstock is the first to publicly say it's turning its attention back to natural gas as the oil market continues its struggles with bottoming prices. But others are "definitely talking about it," said Ragan Dickens, Louisiana Oil and Gas Association's North Louisiana communications director. "We're hearing reports that natural gas in general and the Haynesville Shale specifically is getting more appealing by the day."
Shale exploration exploded in early 2008 and the Haynesville was touted as the highest-producing natural gas play in the nation. It rocketed until about 2012, when prices began dipping, causing producers to turn their horizontal extraction efforts to more lucrative oil-rich plays. Rigs pulled out of the Haynesville by the droves, leaving only a handful of companies continuing to hammer away at the trapped natural resource.
Other oil and gas producers may be giving the shale another glance now to offset oil prices that have taken their turn at racing downward. While putting a smile on motorists' faces with gasoline hovering at or below $2 a gallon, the plunging crude oil prices already are causing companies to hit pause on expanded or new exploration in oil-heavy shales such as the Tuscaloosa Marine that spans across South Louisiana and into Mississippi and the Eagle Ford in Texas.
Another fallout from the oil price slide is the thousands of rig hands who have been losing their jobs in recent weeks. Oil companies also are slicing the operational budgets, and all of that combines to send a ripple through the economy hitting pocketbooks of mom and pop and the coffers of government bodies.
Companies such as Comstock Resources, that were not as well-positioned in oil plays such as the larger EOG Resources in the core of the Eagle Ford Shale, may be the ones looking to move to the Haynesville Shale, said Chris Robertson, research analyst for Wood Mackenzie, a Houston-based energy research firm.
Natural gas prices have been stagnant for some time but operators in the Haynesville Shale have been working with it. With the Haynesville, they know what it costs to drill so it's easier to work out the economics of their operations in conjunction with what they want to produce, said Patrick Courreges, Department of Natural Resources communications director.
"I don't think we'll see a huge uptick but we probably will see some folks say 'Let's go ahead and do the gas because we know what we can get out of it,'" Courreges said. "It's like a bank account, it may come and go but people know where it is and how to get it out. There won't be the fever pitch in drilling but it's not going to fade."
If there is decreased activity in shale oil plays, whether from taking down rigs or having less capital to spend, then there could be a drop in the supply of natural gas as well, which might put upward pressure on prices, Robertson said.
"More marginal areas will shut down but that leaves more productive wells in productive areas. … It all depends on how long oil prices stay low," he said.
Guyton noted even Chesapeake Energy bumped up its rig count last year in the Haynesville Shale. Comstock was planning to move a rig back there, too, even when oil prices were above $100 a barrel, he said.
"Because when you stand back from the pine bark, the Haynesville hasn't been hit with a new vintage completion. The last signification drilling was in 2010 and 2011. The completion techniques have improved and changed since then. It's not just the gas price but also newer techniques that should increase the returns," Guyton said.
Haynesville wells are not cheap. Guyton estimates Comstock's costs at $11 million or so. But longer lateral — now 7,500 feet as opposed to the 5,000 feet laterals prominent in 2010-11 — increase efficiency.
"It's stuff we've been doing in the Eagle Ford in Texas and we're going to bring that technology to the gas side," Guyton said.
Increased efficiency in operations is what Jason Pigott, Chesapeake Energy's senior vice president of operations in the southern division, promoted in a May report to investors. Pigott said the Haynesville production had turned from a "declining asset to a growth asset."
"We are not hampered by some of the constraints in the Northeast market. So it is a great gas lever for us, a great value lever for us. We are also well-positioned for many of these LNG projects. They are in various stages of development. We have got a team that is dedicated and focused on looking at value-adding opportunities there," Pigott said.
But even LNG has taken a hit of late from the shaky global oil market with the announcement last week that Excelerate Energy was putting on hold its floating export plant. The Houston company said it had not signed up enough international buyers to satisfy its investment, according to a Reuters report dated Dec. 30.
"In a falling oil price environment it's going to be harder to export to make up for the huge capital investment up front," Robertson said.
Still, LNG export is considered the next game changer for natural gas plays. About a dozen other multi-billion dollar liquefaction projects are in various stages of permitting or construction, with Cheniere's Sabine Pass LNG receiving terminal in Cameron Parish nearing completion of its first phase.
"The bulk will be coming on in the three- to four-year time frame which could support the demand," said Reagan "R.T." Dukes, senior analyst with Wood Mackenzie.
Meanwhile, the energy research firm analysts are of the opinion the Haynesville Shale will bottom out pricewise this year before increasing modestly until LNG is fully online in 2020, Robertson said. In the short run, however, weather and storage drawdowns could positively influence natural gas prices.
It's not only the Haynesville Shale in Northwest Louisiana that is adding to the state's energy market. Operators also are beginning to use the shale-honed techniques in an older, well-known Lower Cotton Valley formation.
Parts of north DeSoto Parish, south Caddo Parish and eastward to Claiborne, Bienville and Lincoln parishes are seeing increased attention from companies anxious to use horizontal drilling in the tight sands instead of the conventional vertical drilling.
The Cotton Valley is not as dense as the shale, but hydraulic fracturing is used to release the natural gas. An added benefit is it also generates some oil and other lighter liquids.
DeSoto Parish land owner Gary Brummett already has 11 producing wells on his property and interest in another half-dozen. Indigo Minerals is poised to start drilling the first Cotton Valley wells on his property any day.
Surface casings are completed for the four wells that will pull from a section and a half in each location. The horizontal drilling will take less water than what is used in the Haynesville fracking process. But that's OK with Brummett, who said he could only hear cash registers ringing when the six-inch rain fell last weekend.
"They're going to buy water from me … but I still have a new pond that's not full yet," Brummett said.
Almost three years ago, another company contacted Brummett about drilling six Cotton Valley wells on his land but the plan never materialized. Then Indigo stepped in and purchased the drilling rights.
"They are spending a lot of money in Caddo and DeSoto right now," Brummett said.
The Haynesville Shale, Bossier Shale, Cotton Valley, Tuscaloosa Marine and other century-old oil- and gas-producing fields in Louisiana are just part of the mix that's feeding into Louisiana's firm footing in the energy market. And not to be forgotten is what's being labeled a manufacturing renaissance along Louisiana's Gulf Coast. The construction of gas-fired power plants will be a factor in pumping up the need for natural gas.
"As the winter progresses and if natural gas inches toward $5 that always helps with the Haynesville Shale. Whether the weather peaks or not, we're banking on Cheniere, the other LNGs and the manufacturing renaissance to increase that demand," Dickens said.
Haynesville Shale: Is it making a comeback?
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Tsunami shale gas? - Il Fatto Quotidiano
Tsunami shale gas?
Ambiente & Veleni di Mario Agostinelli | 2 gennaio 2015
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Mario Agostinelli
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La caduta del prezzo del greggio e il contemporaneo rifiuto degli arabi dell’OPEC di ridurne l’offerta, muta la competizione nel mercato del petrolio, del gas e del carbone. Sono molti gli analisti che ritengono che non solo l’attacco è rivolto alla Russia, ma anche alla concorrenza del gas e dell’olio da shale americano (v. Bloomberg News del 27-11-14), così da farne emergere, senza più l’alibi di un prezzo inferiore, tutti i rischi ambientali e la bolla speculativa che si porta alle spalle. E’ una questione di cui da noi si parla pochissimo, ma che mette in ansia i grandi finanziatori delle fossili “non convenzionali”.
In uno scenario in movimento, Circle of Blue, periodico americano che affronta il problema delle risorse, e The Nation, con un articolo di Naomi Klein, mettono impietosamente in evidenza gli inconvenienti dell’olio e del gas di scisto.
Sono diffuse in Usa e Canada preoccupazioni sui rischi per l’acqua, la terra, e le comunità, dato che il boom di estrazione da scisto richiede cambiamenti dirompenti dei sistemi di tubazione e di quelli ferroviari di trasporto. Le nuove riserve energetiche si trovano in aree che non sono ben collegate ai porti o alle raffinerie già sviluppate nel secolo precedente e le imprese del settore energetico sono impegnate in una rete ferroviaria e di gasdotti per abbinare la mutata geografia alla nuova offerta.
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Nel corso degli ultimi due anni, treni che trasportano petrolio dal Canada e Dakota sono esplosi almeno in sei località, con perdita di centinaia di vite e vasti inquinamenti. Nel 2010, un oleodotto che trasporta greggio per la raffineria a Detroit dalla regione di sabbie bituminose di Alberta ha rovesciato quasi 1 milione di litri di greggio appiccicoso nel fiume Kalamazoo. Gli analisti del settore prevedono che una media di circa 50 miliardi di dollari all’anno saranno spesi da qui al 2025 per creare reti di gasdotti e di ferrovie adeguate: con 28968 km. di condutture si tratta di uno “tsunami di nuovi gasdotti“. In attesa dei nuovi tubi il trasporto ferroviario è cresciuto in modo esponenziale con un aumento del 3600%.
Il percorso del gasdotto Keystone XL, che collegherebbe Alberta al Golfo del Texas, è l’esempio più visibile di protesta nazionale (l’itinerario proposto attraversa un acquifero sensibile in Nebraska, che i cittadini e il governatore dello Stato vogliono proteggere). Le proteste vanno al di là delle popolazioni locali, perché si considera che l’arresto del programma possa bloccare la produzione da sabbie bituminose, una delle fonti più costose e più sporche (più del doppio di effetto serra rispetto al petrolio tradizionale), che porta benefici economici ad una parte dell’industria, ma danni rilevanti all’agricoltura e al turismo.
In meno di un anno, Shell, Statoil e Total hanno abbandonato i loro progetti sulle sabbie bituminose, avviati quando il petrolio era a 100 $. Barack Obama, a questo punto, deve decidere se, fermando Keystone, ferma anche un progetto industriale che sta destabilizzando il clima. Nel frattempo i rappresentanti delle popolazioni indigene continuano a vincere coi loro ricorsi in tribunale.
Il cambiamento climatico è tornato sulla scena mondiale, ad un livello che non si scorgeva da quando è fallito il vertice di Copenaghen nel 2009. Mentre Stati Uniti Cina e Europa sembrano indotti a ricorrere a drastiche misure, il Canada, con emissioni di quasi il 30 per cento superiore a Kyoto, comincia esso stesso a dubitare che le sue sabbie bituminose siano opportunità di business a lungo termine, in cui depositare centinaia di miliardi di dollari nei prossimi decenni.


Gli U$A sono a capolinea...per questo saranno pericolosissimi.
Lunga vita allo Zar
Possiamo concludere che tutto il peggio che succede in Italia e' dovuto alle elites PD ed al vaticano?
Stupri, attentati, invasione, fallimenti, disoccupazione, emergenza sociale, denatalita',violenza verbale , suicidi, omicidi....

