Like most of you, I enjoy reading enlightening banter. Have any of you read the oil drum? Plenty of experts, with relevant info on natural gas including North Louisiana topics. I hope this doesn't get me in trouble. I'm not promoting another site for any monetary reason, just that it's educational, seems like that is what this Haynesville site is about.
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P. Coyle on July 1, 2009 - 12:57pm
I'm sure that nat gas is going to be used far more in the future, if for no other reason than it looks like there's going to be plenty of it to go around for a while. Four or five years ago they were talking about NG production having peaked in North America, but no more, thanks to developments (horizontal drilling and hydro-fracing) in unconventional gas production. I used to think that world NG was going to peak before world coal, but now it looks like it might be the other way around. That being the case, why wouldn't we want to start substituting gas for coal in electricity production? In the short run, the utilities might even be able to start using their gas-fired peak load plants as base load plants (though admittedly they weren't necessarily designed for it), which might cut down on the need to build new plants.