Colorado shale is almost size of Marcellus;

fc-gi.com ^ | Jun 14, 2016

[ckilmer]

Intelligence brief: Colorado shale is almost size of Marcellus; Pipeline bill calls for new technologies
Jun 14, 2016

Colorado is famous for its high peaks; now it could also be known for its shale

Colorado sits on 40 times more natural gas than previously thought, according to an updated estimate by the US Geological Survey.

The USGS said the Mancos Shale in the Piceance Basin contains about 66 trillion cubic feet of undiscovered, technically recoverable shale natural gas, 74 million barrels of shale oil and 45 million barrels of natural-gas liquids, according to the estimate, the first since 2003.

More than 2,000 wells were drilled and completed in one or more intervals within the Mancos Shale. In addition, the USGS Energy Resources Program drilled a research well in the southern Piceance Basin that provided significant new geologic and geochemical data that were used to refine the 2003 assessment.

The Mancos Shale is more than 4,000 feet thick, and contains intervals that act as the source rock for shale gas and oil, meaning that the petroleum was generated in the formation. Some of the oil and gas migrated out of the source rock and into tight (low permeability) reservoirs within the Mancos, as well as into conventional reservoirs both above and below the formation. Oil and gas also remained in continuous shale gas and shale oil reservoirs within the Mancos, the USGS said.

By comparison, the most recent USGS surveys estimate that the Marcellus Shale contains about 84 trillion cubic feet of natural gas, and the Barnett Shale about 53 trillion cubic feet.

A bi-partisan pipeline-safety bill passed by the US House of Representatives this week would, if passed into law, require the Secretary of Transportation to conduct a study on improving existing damage-prevention programs through technological improvements.

The study must include an identification of any methods to improve damage prevention through location and mapping practices or technologies in an effort to reduce releases caused by excavation.

It must also analyze how increased use of global-positioning system and digital-mapping technologies, predictive-analytic tools, public-awareness initiatives, mobile devices, and other advanced technologies could supplement existing one-call notification and damage-prevention programs to reduce the frequency and severity of incidents caused by excavation damage.

The bill also required an analysis of the feasibility of a national data repository for pipeline-excavation accident data that creates standardized data models for storing and sharing pipeline-accident information.

In addition to its focus on technologies, the legislation requires the agency to update safety regulations, increase transparency, and speed up the process of completing outstanding safety requirements included in the 2011 reauthorization of the federal pipeline-safety program.

Don Santa, Chief Executive of the Interstate Natural Gas Association of America, which represents most of the interstate natural-gas pipeline companies in the US, applauded the house for passing S. 2276, the PIPES Act of 2016.

“Overall, S. 2276 meets INGAA’s goals for the current reauthorization of the Pipeline Safety Act. These goals include: reasonable authorization levels for the Pipelines and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration; a focus on PHMSA completing the regulatory mandates under the Pipeline Safety, Regulatory Certainty and Job Creation Act of 2011; and a requirement that PHMSA set minimum federal safety standards for underground natural gas storage facilities,” he said.

[CodeToad]

“but it doesn’t plant food or ship it to your grocery store shelves.”

Um, trucks and tractors can and do run on NG. It is just cheaper right now to use diesel, but there is no reason why fleets can’t run on NG.

There are delivery trucks in Colorado that run on NG.

[Red Badger]

Turning natural gas into diesel fuel

http://money.cnn.com/2012/05/09/news/economy/natural-gas-diesel/index.htm

Gas to liquids (GTL) is a refinery process to convert natural gas or other gaseous hydrocarbons into longer-chain hydrocarbons, such as gasoline or diesel fuel.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gas_to_liquids

[dfwgator]

*thumbs up* I came in just to post that joke. MARCELLUS WALLACE! DO HE LOOK LIKE A BITCH?

What?

[Sam Gamgee]

?? Anyone know the price to get that shale out of the ground?

[ETL]

The Mancos Shale or Mancos Group is a Late Cretaceous (Upper Cretaceous) geologic formation of the Western United States.

The Mancos Shale was first described by Cross and Purington in 1899[1] and was named for exposures near the town of Mancos, Colorado.

Geology

It is dominated by mudrock that accumulated in offshore and marine environments of the Cretaceous North American Inland Sea. The Mancos was deposited during the Cenomanian through Campanian ages, approximately from 95 Ma [million years ago] to 80 Ma.

Stratigraphically the Mancos Shale fills the interval between the Dakota Group and the Mesaverde Formation Group.[2]

The Mancos Shale rests conformably on the Dakota and in its upper part grades into and intertongues with the Mesaverde Group. The shale tongues typically have sharp basal contacts and gradational upper contacts.

Occurrences

The Mancos occurs in the Basin and Range Province, the Colorado Plateau Province, and the San Juan Mountains Province.
Structural basins

It also occurs in the following structural basin:[3]

Black Mesa Basin
Estancia Basin
Green River Basin

Orogrande Basin
Paradox Basin
Piceance Basin

San Juan Basin [4]
Uintah Basin

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mancos_Shale

[Mr. Jeeves]

Ellis was a little smarter than today’s shale proponents - he could extract the oil profitably.

[Red Badger]

Anything is possible in Bookland.....................

[ckilmer]

what tool do you use to convert a web page to html—that you can copy and paste into freerepublic.

I like it. I want to use it. The tool I have does text but not pics.

[ckilmer]

are you talking about shale oil or oil shale? they’re different animals

[Owen]

Obviously there IS a reason why they don’t, because they don’t. Bizarre little demonstration exceptions don’t redefine reality.

Go on down to walmart and ask them what kind of trucks bring them food.

[ckilmer]

oil shale (and not shale oil—they are different) according to wikipedia:

The various attempts to develop oil shale deposits have succeeded only when the cost of shale-oil production in a given region comes in below the price of crude oil or its other substitutes (break-even price). The United States Department of Energy estimates that the ex-situ processing would be economic at sustained average world oil prices above US$$54 per barrel and in-situ processing would be economic at prices above $35 per barrel. These estimates assume a return rate of 15%.[6] The International Energy Agency estimates, based on the various pilot projects, that investment and operating costs would be similar to those of Canadian oil sands, that means would be economic at prices above $60 per barrel at current costs. This figure does not account carbon pricing, which will add additional cost.[4] According to the New Policies Scenario introduced in its World Energy Outlook 2010, a price of $50 per tonne of emitted CO2, expected by 2035, will add additional $7.50 per barrel cost of shale oil.[4]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil_shale_economics

[riverdawg]

Coming to a Walmart near you:

https://freightliner.com/why-freightliner/industry-leading-results/natural-gas/

[Owen]

That article talks about perpetual prospects.

Those toys are for applications moving stuff 20 miles, like trash pickup.

They don’t move food 400 miles between refills, which is how NYC gets fed. You may have noticed there are no major farms inside NYC’s 25 mile diameter that feed the city.

As of January about 3% of total sales of vehicles (buses, trash trucks, anything that needs no range between refill) were nat gas. That means about 0.001% of total trucks in existence are that.

There are 5.6 million BTUs of energy in a barrel of oil. A barrel of nat gas at standard atmosphere pressure is 1/1000th of that. Compress it some (not too much or you can’t get the filling source to overwhelm the reverse pressure) and you can get down to about 1/60th. That’s why you have no range.

[hinckley buzzard]

I did a report on Colorado one time for a school assignment. One of the features of the report was oil shale. It was a geography report back when geography was taught as a separate subject. In the Fifth Grade. In 1957. Nothing new here, only the technology to harvest the crop.

[minnesota_bound]

So why would we need electric cars and windmills?
Electric rates went way up because of pensions being paid thru higher rates and the money siphon off and gov’t wanting control over your life.

[minnesota_bound]

Try these HTML Editors.
Type your text. Highlight it to make bold or italic or change color etc. Next copy and paste here at Free Republic then click on Preview to see if you messed up. If it looks good then post.

https://html-online.com/editor

http://bestonlinehtmleditor.com

[BBell]

You are very witty with your posts. I did not even think of Marsellus Wallace until your post.

[Ozark Tom]

Kerogen in the Green River basin? Listen in to an interview of Peter Kearl of Qmast LLC describing microwave energy extraction of oil from organics trapped in shale.

https://oilmanmagazine.com/podcast/interview-peter-kearl-inventor-qmast/

https://www.jimmyvallee.com/blog.php?article=emerging-in-oil-gas-new-microwave-technology-jimmy-vallee_12

[ckilmer]

Half the time people who reply to a post don’t click through the links to read the story before they reply. They just read the headline and reply.

Posting the whole story — when possible—imho improves the quality of the replies.

Thanks.

[ckilmer]

You may have noticed there are no major farms inside NYC’s 25 mile diameter that feed the city.

..........
there is a pretty massive paradigm shift coming in farming that will make most vegetables locally grown around big cities like New York. Google “vertical farms” to see what its about.