'Lords of the Manor' to cash in on 'fracking'

[Paul Mobbs]

On Tuesday 08 Nov 2011 09:31:48 Chris wrote:
> Do we have an estimate of the ratio between energy in extraction to
> energy gained for this technology yet?

I talk a little about this in the Free Range handout on shale gas -- 
http://www.fraw.org.uk/redirect.html?e11

However, there are no figures in existence worth a damn. That's because the 
industry is so fragmented, running on many different contracts for different 
activities related to drilling and production, that no one has yet produced a 
real measured figure.

Even Ugo Bardi, who's pretty switched on from the point of view of data 
sources, hasn't yet found any good figures (e.g. see 
http://cassandralegacy.blogspot.com/2011/04/shale-gas-problem-with-eroei.html 
). Charles Hall has done some work on US EROEI, but not specifically on shale 
gas (e.g. see Gail's review -- http://www.theoildrum.com/node/7062 ) -- and of 
course you can find Charles Hall's most important papers (especially 
'Revisiting the Limits to Growth after Peak Oil') on the FRAW site in the 
'economics' and 'peak oil' sections:
http://www.fraw.org.uk/redirect.html?economics
http://www.fraw.org.uk/redirect.html?peakoil


Hope that's a help.

P.

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