Burgeoning

The burgeoning development of shale gas plays in the United States “has changed the playing field for long-haul pipelines,” diminishing the need to move natural gas along traditional west-to-east routes and leaving large stretches of pipeline underutilized, according to a new report from Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services (S&P).

The burgeoning development of shale gas plays in the United States “has changed the playing field for long-haul pipelines,” diminishing the need to move natural gas along traditional west-to-east routes and leaving large stretches of pipeline underutilized, according to a new report from Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services (S&P).

British Columbia (BC) natural gas supplies in both proposed export terminals and burgeoning shale plays hold out the potential for substantial power demand growth over the next 20 years, according to a draft 2012 integrated resource plan (IRP) by BC Hydro. Along with mining, natural gas carries the potential for “very substantial demand growth,” the BC provincial utility officials said.

Onsite power with low emissions and maintenance is an increasing necessity for operators in burgeoning oil and gas shale plays, and a couple of Southern California-based manufacturers are seeking markets for their distributed generation devices (see Shale Daily, Dec. 28, 2011).

In the latest move to build demand for North America’s burgeoning natural gas supplies, industry and government officials met in Ottawa, Canada last Friday to launch what they are calling a roadmap for market development of natural gas as a transportation fuel throughout the nation.

The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) announced that it is reorganizing to better manage a burgeoning workload from the state’s booming oil and gas industry in the Marcellus Shale.

The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) said Tuesday it is reorganizing, a move designed to assist regulators with a burgeoning workload from the state’s booming oil and gas industry in the Marcellus Shale.

Burgeoning gas supplies from shale plays are a boon not just to producers and domestic energy security hawks; they’re bringing smiles to executives across the U.S. petrochemical industry, too.

Burgeoning gas supplies from shale plays are a boon not just to producers and domestic energy security hawks; they’re bringing smiles to executives across the U.S. petrochemical industry, too.