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3 Stocks That Are Involved In Natural Gas And The Marcellus Shale
Posted September 5, 2011
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By Simon Lack
There always seems to be something to say on this topic. Although natural gas E&P companies typically represent 15-20% of our Deep Value Equity strategy, they provide disproportionate volatility but have also provided very good returns. The US Geological Survey (USGS) is a federal agency that gathers information and publishes research on the environment and natural resources.
A week ago they published a report on the amount of natural gas in the Marcellus Shale, an enormous area which runs from New York State to Alabama. They estimated that the "mean undiscovered natural gas resource" in this region is 84 TCFE (trillion cubic feet equivalent). They use the mean because the science isn't certain and they have various forecasts with different levels of certainty.
84 TCFE is a lot of gas, roughly four times annual U.S. consumption. But this estimate is sharply lower than previous ones, and as a result the Energy Information Agency (EIA) whose job it is to forecast available energy resources, said it would slash its previous forecast of Marcellus availability by 80%. READ FULL ARTICLE
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