カナダのシェールガス事業について(<特集>東日本大震災後における電力供給を担うもの〜LNG安定調達に向けた開発プロジェクトの数々〜)
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There was a major turning point for US natural gas industry due to the price hike since 2000. While most players, including the government, headed toward LNG import, limited others chose to stay in domestic unconventional gas development in Texas, so called Shale Gas. The Shale Gas revolution did never happened suddenly and the early sign could be seen since 70' s. North American natural gas market has been controlled by the government in 80' s and 90's, keeping lower price, but such special technologies like horizontal drilling, fracking and microseismic, were progressed steadily by ambitious challengers even under low price condition. There are some grounds behind the sudden rise of "Shale Revolution" in North America, except the price factor. 1. High Quality and Huge reserve Abundant high quality shale formations are extended coast to coast, and proper to utilize the advanced technologies and learn form their "tries and errors" 2. Infrastructure Most shale opportunities are overlapped with current oil & gas fields, and easy to be monetized 3. Water Easier to access the fracking purposed water In our case, first off, we have started to consider the probability to export gas into Japan, and Canadian shale gas has been our prioritized as LNG feed, because the location and country could be geopolitically best supplier, and the production area' s market is the lowest in North America. Furthermore, the mammoth reserve make us image longer stable supply than existing ones. We still find some challenging milestones to realize the concept, but are trying to overcome step by step. Hopefully we could bring the "Japan-flagged" Canadian gas into Asian region in near future.
- 2012-02-20