Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/88152 
Year of Publication: 
2013
Series/Report no.: 
DIW Discussion Papers No. 1338
Publisher: 
Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW), Berlin
Abstract: 
US shale gas production is generally expected to continue its fast rise. However, a cautious evaluation is needed. Shale gas resource estimates are potentially overoptimistic and it is uncertain to which extent they can be produced economically. Moreover, the adverse environmental effects of ever more wells to be drilled may lead to a fall in public acceptance and a strengthening of regulation. The objective of this paper is hence twofold: providing a critical look at current US shale gas projections, and investigating in a second step the implications of a less optimistic development by means of numerical simulation. In a world of declining US shale gas production after 2015, natural gas consumption outside the USA is reduced from its reference path by at least as much as US consumption. Trade flows are redirected, and the current US debate on LNG export capacity requirements becomes obsolete.
Subjects: 
Natural Gas
Shale
USA
Scenarios
Equilibrium Modeling
JEL: 
Q37
L71
Q41
Q33
C61
Q53
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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