USGS: Piceance Basin Gas Estimates Swell By 3,920%

摘要

The Piceance Basin is getting so big. Roughly 13 years and 2,000 drilled wells since the last assessment of its resources, a U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) report says the basin has grown into the second-largest U.S. unconventional gas play yet assessed. Colorado's Piceance-specifically the Mancos Shale-is now estimated to contain 66 trillion cubic feet (Tcf) of undiscovered technically recoverable shale gas, about 40x more than initial estimates of 1.65 Tcf.