In case folks did not see this comment, I am placing it as a stand-along post. Gregg sent me two very interesting links:

This report came out 6-7 months ago from EIA.

The first link is a summary article from NBF.

The second is EIA stuff with a 51.4MB link to the full report.

The USA should have a jobs program to build rigs and then exporting the rigs and know-how to tap and use shale gas.

Kind-a-like the Peace Corp but for energy independence.

Very interesting map of the world, and unconventional shale plays.

America's analysis of world shale gas in fourteen regions around the world.

Perhaps more on this later, particularly the first link with the map.