Lo sfruttamento del gas non convenzionale da parte di Usa, Ue e Cina potrebbe privare Mosca del suo ruolo di fornitore energetico dominante, togliendo al Cremlino una formidabile arma economica e geopolitica. La cosiddetta shale gas revolution, ossia il massiccio incremento della produzione globale di gas non convenzionale da scisti bituminosi, sembra esser destinata a mutare profondamente gli equilibri energetici mondiali.
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Ukraine’s government is weeks away from signing a shale gas production-sharing agreement with Chevron, of the US, and bringing in Italy’s Eni and France’s EDF as partners for a Black Sea hydrocarbon exploration project. Government and business industry sources said the landmark agreements would be signed next month, as Kiev steps up efforts to find alternatives to costly imports from Russia’s Gazprom.
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Mentre lo sviluppo delle risorse energetiche non convenzionali ridisegna il panorama del settore a livello mondiale, l’industria energetica affronta nuove sfide per il futuro della energy security globale. Le novita’ introdotte nell’industria energetica dallo sviluppo di risorse come lo shale gas sono stati il tema principale del terzo Shale Gas Forum in corso in questi giorni allo Hengshan Picardie Hotel di Shanghai. Al convegno hanno preso parte alcuni dei maggiori esperti mondiali del settore, come Thomas Hilboldt, direttore del settore ricerche per gas, petrolio e prodotti petrolchimici di HSBC per il quadrante Asia-Pacifico, che ha parlato degli sviluppi dei settori del petrolio, del gas e dei prodotti petrolchimici nell’Asia nord-orientale, e Chris Faulkner, CEO di Breitlling Oil & Gas, che ha elencato i progressi dell’industria dello shale gas statunitense.
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Chiswick Park in southwest London does not look like a hub of the global oil and gas industry. But that’s what this elegant business park, with its water features, landscaped gardens and coffee bars has become. It is now home to the UK’s biggest concentration of oilfield service companies outside of Aberdeen. Seadrill, Aker Solutions, Halliburton and Baker Hughes have all made their home here.
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EUROPE’S FRACKING PROBLEMS
The question of whether North America’s shale success can or will be replicated elsewhere is often quite narrowly constructed around the amount of gas that could, potentially, be underground. In the U.K., for example, a geological survey has estimated some 1.3 quadrillion cubic feet of gas is contained within the shale formations under the Bowland area in northwest England.
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Almost lost in all the news about the federal government “shutdown” (which has somehow left 83% of the government funded and functioning) over the last week are several new reports regarding the ongoing massive oil and natural gas Shale Revolution in the United States, and the role Texas is playing in making it happen. Since I make it a policy never to miss an opportunity to expound on the benefits of this revolution, or to brag about Texas in general, I thought I’d roll these stories out here:
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