Assessing gas and oil resources in the intermountain West : review of methods and framework for a new approach /
The authors examine four recent traditionalassessments of the nation's potential supply of natural gas and oilresources. They suggest a new methodology: estimating viable resource, which is the gas and oil resource that is available when exploration andproduction costs, infrastructure and trans...
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| Language: | English |
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Santa Monica, CA :
RAND,
2002
Santa Monica, CA : Rand, 2002 Santa Monica, CA : c2002 Santa Monica, CA : ©2002 Santa Monica, Calif. : 2002 |
| Series: | MR (Series) ;
1553-WFHF |
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Table of Contents:
- 1 Introduction
- 2. Technically Recoverable Gas and Oil Resources
- 3. Legal Access to Resources in the Intermountain West
- 4. Economically Recoverable Resources
- 5. Infrastructure
- 6. Environmental Considerations
- 7. Conclusions
- App. Technically Recoverable Resource Assessment Specifications.
- Technically Recoverable Gas and Oil Resources
- Assessment Methodologies
- Reserve Appreciation
- Undiscovered Conventional Resource
- Nonconventional Resources
- Results for the Lower 48 States
- Results for the Rocky Mountain Region
- Resource Assessment Evolution
- Legal Access to Resources in the Intermountain west
- Methodology
- Results
- Economically Recoverable Resources
- Methodology
- Results
- Infrastructure
- Overview of Infrastructure Components
- Water Disposal
- Compression
- Gathering System
- Processing
- Transmission Pipelines
- Roads
- Including Infrastructure in Resource Assessments
- Infrastructure Requirements
- The Viable Resource
- Environmental Considerations
- Overview of Environmental Impacts
- Exploration and Development
- Production
- Maintenance
- Accidents
- Waste Disposal
- Orphan Wells
- Transport
- Environmental Considerations and the Viable Resource
- Implications of Viable Resource Approach
- Potential Results
- Future Work
- Technically Recoverable Resource Assessment Specifications