In this video CONSOL Energy CEO, Brett Harvey, talks about the company’s purchase of natural gas assets from Dominion Resources. He seems to think highly of the potential for natural gas. A quote: “Natural Gas will be the chosen fuel.” (Consol already owns a lot of coal mines between the surface and the Marcellus Shale which create conflicting land use problems when drilling for natural gas.)

How long will the new natural gas shale plays be producing gas? 20 years? 40? More? This topic was discussed at IHS CERA conference last week in Houston. Some believe that they will be producing gas for a long time.

The American Petroleum Institute has an excellent video that explains the horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing processes. It explains the drilling process, fracturing procedure, equipment, materials used and environmental concerns.

Here is a video that shows a day on the job with Omar, a field engineer trainee at Schlumberger. He takes you out to a hydraulic fracturing job where they fracture a deep formation and inject 150,000 pounds of bauxite proppant into the well.

Senate Bill 1408 and House Bill 1835 are new bills introduced to encourage the use of natural gas in vehicles. T. Boone Pickens comments in this video.

The West Virginia Surface Owner’s Rights Organization has a lot of useful information on their website. One of the best items there is a slideshow on well spacing and royalty sharing – also known as “pooling and unitiaztion”

A video from KSLA gives some perspective on how you should be careful to obtain reliable information before you sign an agreement to lease your Haynesville Shale natural gas rights.

Economic Impact of the Haynesville Shale Drilling: Local officials of Shreveport get in touch with counterparts in Fort Worth to find out what they learned from their Barnett Shale experience. From KSLA.

This video gives a good summary of the the “natural gas landrush” that is occurring in Pennsylvania in response to the realization that the Marcellus Shale can yield large quantities of natural gas.

(The video says that no gas has been produced yet… but Cabot produced the first gas in northeast Pennsylvania on July 24th. Range Resources produced the first gas in southwestern Pennsylvania in 2005.)

The Wall Street Journal Online edition has an article about Chesapeake Energy’s venture to feature Barnett Shale information on Shale.TV, its new website. Some think that the company is building the website to feature programs that will bolster its image as it drills in and near populated areas.