What is Shale Gas

 Natural Gas(Methane)
 Unconventional Souce of Energy
 Trapped in shale Rock
 2000 to 7000 deep
 Reserves higher than fossil fuel
 How Shale Gas is Formed
 Shale containing Natural Gas is Generally
sandwitched between two rock layers
 Continued prssure from burial,forces most of
the Natural Gas to migrate from the organic
shale into more porous rock such as sandstone,
limestone forming conventional reservoir
 The Natural Gas remaining in the shales is
termed as Shale Gas
 Extraction

 Leasing Land
 Exploration
 Drilling
1.Hydraulic fracturig
2.Horizonal drilling

 Collection
 Restoration
 Why Shale Gas?

 Plentiful
 Cleaner than fossil fuel
 Enviroment friendly
 Low Mantenance Cost
 Economical
 Shale Gas in India

 ONGC discovered 1st shale gas reserve at

Durgapur in Burdwan District of West
Bengal
 This reserve spread over 12000 square km
nearly
 This reserve range between 600 to 2000
trillion cubic feet

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 Problems

 During extraction large amount of water

required that goes waste
 Drilling of rocks may cause sudden
earthquake
 Extra leakage of it may harm ozone layer
 Because Methane is more powerful Green
house Gas than CO2
 Ground water Problem
 Chemicals are added to water to aide in
fracturing of water
 This add goes to the amount of ground water
 It takes 2 million to 4 million gallon of water to
drill and fracturing a horizontal shale gas well
 References
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Www.campaigncc.org
Www.gurdian.co.uk
Www.naturalgas.org
Www.scientificamerican.com
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