Screen LibraryThe natural gas revolution : at the pivot of the world's energy future /
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Pearson Education,
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| Publisher Address: | Upper Saddle River, New Jersey : |
| Publication Dates: |
2013. ©2014 |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Carrier Form: | xx, 280 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-264) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780133353518 : |
| Index Number: | TN880 |
| CLC: | F407.2 |
| Call Number: | F407.2/K812 |
| Contents: |
Machine generated contents note: Plate 1 The Structure of Oil and Gas Reservoirs -- Plate 2 The Natural Gas Resource Triangle -- Plate 3 Unconventional Natural Gas and Oil Plays in the United States -- Plate 4 The Barnett and Eagle Ford Shale Formations -- Plate 5 The Marcellus and Utica Shale Formations -- Plate 6 The Bakken Shale Formation -- Plate 7 The Process for Liquefying Natural Gas -- Plate 8 The South Pars and North Fields of Qatar and Iran -- Plate 9 The Shale Gas Basins of China -- Plate 10 The Constricted Sea Lanes of the Middle East -- Plate 11 The Constricted Sea Lanes of Southeast Asia -- Plate 12 The South China Sea and Its Contested Regions: Paracel Islands, the Spratly Islands, the Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands, and the Scarborough Shoal -- Plate 13 Principal Shale Basins of Western Europe -- Plate 14 The Nord Stream Pipeline -- Plate 15 Pipelines of the Southern Corridor -- Plate 16 Gas Fields of Southern South America -- Plate 17 General Map of Central Asia -- Contents note continued: Plate 18 Major International Pipelines from Iran and Central Asia Eastward -- Plate 19 Turkmenistan's Key Pipelines -- Plate 20 Pipelines from the Caspian Sea Westward -- Plate 21 Gas Fields of the Eastern Mediterranean -- Plate 22 Gas Fields of Tanzania and Mozambique -- Plate 23 The Monterey Shale -- Plate 24 Typical Methane Hydrate Deposits -- Plate 25 The Pressure and Temperature Interface for Methane Hydrates -- ch. 1 To the Brink of Innovation -- World Energy---A Rapid Tour of the Past 200 Years -- Hydrocarbons: From the Beginnings to Maturity -- A Rude Awakening -- U.S. Oil and Natural Gas at the Turn of the Millennium -- Notes -- ch. 2 They Call It a Revolution -- The Early History of Natural Gas -- The Creation of Oil and Natural Gas -- The Basics of Extraction, Production, and Completion -- Hydraulic Fracturing -- Horizontal Drilling -- Contrasting Conventional and Unconventional Gas and Oil Production Techniques -- Contents note continued: Unconventional Gas Resources and Production in the United States -- The U.S. Position in Natural Gas -- World Natural Gas Resources -- Notes -- ch. 3 Liquid Natural Gas and the World Gas Revolution -- Creating and Shipping LNG -- The LNG Industry -- The LNG Infrastructure Today -- The Potential for Exports of U.S. Natural Gas -- LNG Pricing and Markets -- Notes -- ch. 4 Environmental Costs and Benefits -- Water Supply -- Fracking Fluid -- Hydraulic Fracturing and Aquifers -- "Produced Water" -- Air Quality and the Industry's Carbon Footprint -- Physical Effects at the Earth's Surface -- The Social Dimension -- Conclusion: From Coal to Natural Gas or from Natural Gas to Coal? -- Notes -- ch. 5 The United States and China -- Energy in the United States and China -- China's Shale Gas Resources -- Energy Imports for China and the United States -- The Geopolitical Dimension of Energy Imports -- The Shale Gas Revolution and the Future of Energy Geopolitics -- Contents note continued: Notes -- ch. 6 The World's Other Large Economies -- Japan -- The Eurozone Economies: Germany, France and Italy -- Russian Federation -- United Kingdom -- India and Brazil -- Conclusion -- Notes -- ch. 7 The Other Contending Nations -- Iran, Qatar, and Iraq -- Central Asia and Turkey -- The "Quiet Exporters" -- Poland and Ukraine -- Australia -- The Eastern Mediterranean -- Mozambique and Tanzania -- Argentina -- Conclusion -- Notes -- ch. 8 The Next Energy Revolutions -- The Shale Oil Revolution -- The Bakken Play -- The Eagle Ford in Texas -- The Monterey Shale -- The Tight Oil Effect -- A Methane Hydrate Energy Revolution? -- A Concluding Note -- Notes. |