This video provides an overview of shale gas, starting with the first gas well near Fredonia, New York in 1821 up through January 2010 and the major shale gas plays. The speaker is John Curtis, Professor of Geochemistry and Director of the Potential Gas Agency at the Colorado School of Mines.
Videos about Shale
“Gasland” Documentary
An article on the TulsaWorld website reports on a showing and discussion of the natural gas documentary, “Gasland”. The film won the 2010 Sundance Film Festival special jury prize and has been stirring up discussion where ever it is shown.
CONSOL Energy CEO Talks About Buying Gas from Dominion
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.)
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