Locator: 48687B.
From the link:
Based partly on research from the University of Wyoming, the federal Department of the Interior revealed the Mowry Shale holds 473 million barrels of oil and 27 trillion cubic feet of natural gas across southwestern Wyoming, Colorado and Utah.
The Mowry and the Powder River Basin are tracked here.
To that in perspective, from the blog, February 3, 2016:
Wow, I hate dealing with natural gas. I can't get my hands around "trillions" of anything. Here we go again, another mother lode of natural gas estimated at "10,000 trillion cubic feet." To put that in perspective, the Marcellus is huge. Huge. And it's estimated to have 480 trillion cubic feet, so 10,000 trillion cubic feet seems a bit noteworthy. From an earlier post:
Disclaimer: I often make simple arithmetic errors. Numbers rounded. Natural gas reserves according to BP/wiki, 2013 - 2014 (US estimate as of December 2013). Top five countries:
Now, let's go back and re-run the numbers that were posted earlier:
- Russia: 6,000 trillion cubic feet
- Iran: 1,000 trillion cubic feet
- Qatar: 900 trillion cubic feet
- Turkmenistan: 600 trillion cubic feet
- US: 350 trillion cubic feet
- #11: Australia: 152 trillion cubic feet (as of January, 2014). (See this post.)
- that recent huge Mediterranean natural gas find: 30 trillion cubic feet
- Barnett, revised USGS figures: 53 trillion cubic feet
- Utica, newly revised figures: 782 trillion cubic feet
- Marcellus, EIA revised estimates: 65 trillion cubic feet, "proved" reserves
- October 18, 2017: USGS survey -- 300 trillion cubic feet of natural gas, up from roughly 70 trillion cubic feet in its last survey in 2010.
- Bakken/Three Forks, USGS estimate: 7 trillion cubic feet
- Qatar: 800 trillion cubic feet, wiki, conversion
Bottom line: this might be a big story for Wyoming and, maybe even the western United States, but overall, it's a pretty small footnote.
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