Shale Oil & Gas cifras relevantes - significant figures

Petróleo y Gas de esquisto y unas pocas cifras muy relevantes – Shale Oil and Shale Gas and a few rather significant figures

    

Mauricio López Dardaine

Siguen aquí un par de cuadros muy breves para ubicar a los países líderes en recursos técnicamente recuperables, aunque como señala la fuente, la US Energy Information Administration -EIA- se trata de "estimaciones que deberán ser confirmadas sobre el terreno en la medida que sean extensamente probadas mediante pozos de producción".

To yesterday’s comment on this subject we would like to add a couple of short and simple tables (an extract from the top of the tables we did not include before). They deal with the key countries with technically recoverable shale oil and shale gas resources. However, as the US Energy Information Administration-EIA’s report points out: “these shale oil and shale gas resource estimates are highly uncertain and will remain so until they are extensively tested with production wells. This report's methodology for estimating the shale resources outside the United States is based on the geology and resource recovery rates of similar shale formations in the United States (referred to as analogs) that have produced shale oil and shale gas from thousands of producing wells.”

Conviene recordar a nuestros lectores de habla hispana que un barril (de petróleo) estadounidense equivale a 158,987 litros. Cuando se habla de billones se trata de miles de millones de los nuestros.

Por otra parte, respecto del gas, 100 pies cúbicos equivalen a 2,8317 metros cúbicos y el trillón estadounidense significa 10 a la 12ava. potencia (y no a la 18 ava. potencia como es el caso del trillón empleado en lengua española).

Key countries among those with technically recoverable shale OIL resources

Rank	Country	Shale OIL (billion barrels)
1	Russia	75
2	US [1]	58 (48)
3	China	32
4	Argentina	27

Key countries among those with technically recoverable shale GAS resources

Rank	Country	Shale GAS (trillion cubic feet)
1	China	1,115
2	Argentina	802
3	Algeria	707
4	US[2]	665 (1,161)

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[1] EIA estimates used for ranking order. ARI estimates in brackets. ARI: Advanced Resources International Inc, commissioned by EIA to conduct the new world shale resources assessment.

[2] As in (1). Regarding shale GAS it is worth noticing how much EIA and ARI estimates vary when referred to the US!