Montney

A tall new cost hurdle has popped up on the path of liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports from British Columbia (BC), in the form of a restrictive ruling Wednesday by Canada’s National Energy Board (NEB) on pipeline tolls.

A tall new cost hurdle has popped up on the path of liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports from British Columbia (BC), in the form of a restrictive ruling Wednesday by Canada’s National Energy Board (NEB) on pipeline tolls.

The Canadian race to Asia with liquefied natural gas (LNG) has run into a hurdle at the starting gate: British Columbia consumers.

Producers have found a sweet spot, steeped in liquid byproducts, to sustain years of trials and adaptations of horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing on Canada's gas and oil "Near Frontier" in northern British Columbia (BC), according to the country's top energy transporter.

The cost of northwestern Canadian shale gas will drop to competitive levels as drilling intensifies from scattered field trials into concentrated commercial development, says the pipeline grid for British Columbia and Alberta.

TransCanada Corp. is acting swiftly to grab the pipeline action in the next western drilling hot spot, the 130,000-square-kilometer (52,000-square-mile) Montney shale formation in northern British Columbia and Alberta.

Using the experience it gained in the unconventional gas fields of the Piceance Basin in Colorado, and the Montney and Horn River shale plays in British Columbia, Encana Corp. has begun to advance its “gas factory” approach in the Haynesville Shale, where it holds more than 430,000 net acres spread across Louisiana and East Texas.

It’s a shale world and it’s only getting bigger, according to Ziff Energy Group’s natural gas consulting manager.

It’s a shale world and it’s only getting bigger, according to Ziff Energy Group’s natural gas consulting manager.