1. Robert Bryce

2.  George Mitchell: Texas energy baron  1997 discovered hydraulic fracturing ▪ Hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking,” (a drilling process that injects millions of gallons of water, sand and chemicals under high pressure into a well, cracking the rock and to release natural gas and oil. ▪ 45 barrels of water per minute into the well at a pressure of 6,500 lbs/in 2 ▪ 250 ft sections each individually fractured ▪ 2003 horizontal drilling became a widespread drilling process in Texas

4.  Recoverable Natural Gas in Major U.S. Shale Gas Basins is approx. 649.2 trillion cubic feet  Marcellus: 262 trillion  Haynesville 251 trillion  Barnett 44 trillion ▪ Barnett Shale: by end of 2008 had 12,000 wells that were producing 4.8 billion cubic feet per day of natural gas, which is equivalent to 875,000 barrels of oil per day.  Resources are so big that companies are calling drilling in shale the “Gas factory.”

6.  http://www.oilandgaslawyerblog.com/2009/02/ruminations- on-unconventional.html http://www.oilandgaslawyerblog.com/2009/02/ruminations- on-unconventional.html  www.fe.doe.gov/programs/oilgas/publications/naturalgas_g eneral/Shale_Gas_Primer_2009.pdf www.fe.doe.gov/programs/oilgas/publications/naturalgas_g eneral/Shale_Gas_Primer_2009.pdf  www.stateimpact.npr.org/texas/tag/fracking/ www.stateimpact.npr.org/texas/tag/fracking/

7.  How many cubic feet of natural gas are in shale reserves in the United States?  649.2 trillion  What form of drilling was designed specifically for shale?  Hydraulic fracturing