What are the advantages of using shale gas?

1. The production is on land so the well cost is relatively low. 2. It is often produced domestically in the US, which reduces dependancy on foreign energy. read more

Shale gas advantages and disadvantages. Shale gas could become one of the most important energy sources in years to come, and as every other energy source shale gas has its advantages and disadvantages. Before talking more about shale gas advantages and disadvantages we should first define shale gas. read more

Fig. 1: Estimated technically recoverable shale resources for selected basins in some European countries (Data from U.S. EIA “World Shale Gas Resources: An Initial Assessment of 14 Regions Outside the United States", 2011 and "Technically Recoverable Shale Oil and Shale Gas Resources: An Assessment of 137 Shale Formations in 41 Countries Outside the United States”, 2013). read more

The other big advantage of shale gas is that it is considerably cleaner than coal. At present we get 40% of our electricity in this country from burning coal and we need to reduce this figure considerably in order to meet targets to reduce our greenhouse gas emissions. read more