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What is Shale Gas

Chapter 23
Handbook of Research on Renewable Energy and Electric Resources for Sustainable Rural Development
Gas that originates from shale formations. This gas could be either thermogenic or biogenic in origin.
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Shale Gas as an Alternative Energy Source
Eswaran Padmanabhan (Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS, Malaysia), Ranjith Pathegama Gamage (Monash University, Australia), and Evelynlove Fosuduah (Universiti Teknologi PETRONAS, Malaysia)
Copyright: © 2018 |Pages: 15
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-3867-7.ch023
Abstract
Shale gas has been considered as an unconventional resource to date due to economics and technical challenges encountered. Under current circumstances, shale gas has and is receiving increasing attention as it is being quickly known as a viable energy resource. Countries who have been out of the energy game so far have an opportunity to be key players in the same industry. Current enhancement in technology and improved methods for fracking have proven that recovering shale gas is a viable and economically sound option in this century.
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