How much shale gas is there outside the US? It sounds like an impossibly large question, but it is one the US Energy Information Administration has attempted to answer in a new report, carried out by Advanced Resources International.
Their findings are impressive. There is a huge amount of recoverable shale gas out there, says the report – so much that it would add 40 per cent to total global gas supplies. Unsurprisingly the report is already being seized on by gas lobbyists as evidence that shale will change the energy world.
