Shale gas exploration and development in the United States a great success

The United States is the degree of natural gas geological exploration and development of technology in countries with higher levels of  shale gas  is one of the fastest-growing late start but one, that has been put into industrial exploration and development of the three major classes of  unconventional gas  reservoirs , has been in 28 basins or residual basins found shale gas basins in which 10 to begin production of shale gas, forming a U-shaped distribution area favorable belt. Shale gas has become one of the hottest types of exploration. U.S. shale gas exploration is the most obvious sign of success in the Fort Worth Basin Barnett Shale development, in which the natural gas annual production of U.S. shale gas output accounted for more than half. Fort Worth Basin Barnett Shale currently has 3,500 producing wells, generally 600 to 1800 m depth, has a total production of 30 billion cubic meters gas.
U.S. shale gas studies have not been disrupted, especially in the black shale, shale gas production, shale cracks and build gap mechanism, shale gas accumulation mechanism and borders, and many made ​​a lot of research results, it is also very earth promotes the production of  shale gas  exploration and development. 1998 U.S. shale gas production accounted for only 1.6% of dry gas production, as the nation's proven natural gas reserves of 2.3%; 2008, the annual production of shale gas accounted for about 13% of the nation's natural gas production to 15%, annual production of about 100 billion cubic meters, about 830 trillion cubic meters with China's current annual gas production of similar size.