Posted on 01/27/2011 4:42:46 PM PST by crescen7
State-run Oil & Natural Gas Corp (ONGC) has produced first shale gas in the country at Icchapur in Durgapur district of West Bengal, reports Our Bureau from New Delhi. ONGC said the 2,000-metre deep well at the shale formation encountered gas on January 25.
"The breakthrough is significant as India is the first Asian country where gas was discovered from shale outside USA and Canada," ONGC said in a statement. Shale gas is non-conventional natural gas reserves found in non-porous rock and requires fracking technology to extract gas from shale.
India has huge shale deposits in Assam, Gujarat, Rajasthan, the Gangetic plain, the Cambay basin and the Gondwana basin. ONGC had started drilling the first shale gas well at Icchapur village on September 26 last year. The company has awarded a contract to Schlumberger for the pilot project.
ONGC is also undertaking a 128-crore pilot project for exploration of shale gas in the Damodar basin in Jharkhand and plans to drill three wells by March 31, 2012. Shale gas is major source of energy in the US and Canada.
Significant IS the word. I’ll guess that we’ll be seeing more “unexpected” discoveries like this in many parts of the world, and soon.
Of course THOSE countries will exploit THEIR finds.
Some people really believe one should be reluctant to excel and not “give someone else a chance”.Some just hate America. Both types have infested the U.S. government,colleges, and media.
and requires fracking technology to extract gas from shale
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that fracking technology is just fracking fabulous!
“that fracking technology is just fracking fabulous!”
aint that the fracking truth !
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