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GECF: more than a quarter of 2050 natural gas supply untapped

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average economic growth rate between 2000 and 2019, continuously expanding domestic gas production, attracting investors, and enhancing knowledge and technologies exchange. As a holder of the fourth-largest volume of gas reserves worldwide, Turkmenistan has been unlocking the potential of natural gas, leading to an 11.5%

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New EIA report boosts estimates of global recoverable shale oil resources 10-fold to 345 billion barrels

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Algeria, Argentina, and Mexico), providing significantly more data for the 2013 study, EIA said. million barrels per day in 2000 to an average of 1.9 The United States would be ranked second after Russia for shale oil resources and fourth after Algeria for shale gas resources if compared with the 41 countries assessed.

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Study reports non-US global shale gas recoverable resources of 5,760 Tcf; global shale gas boosts total recoverable natural gas resources by 40%

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In addition to the United States, this group includes Canada, Mexico, China, Australia, Libya, Algeria, Argentina, and Brazil. Tcf in 2000. The second group is those countries that already produce substantial amounts of natural gas and also have large shale resources. In 2010, US shale gas production reached 4.87

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