The good news outweighing the bad in Australia's first horizontal shale-gas fraccing trials

IT IS easy to understand why casual observers of the first horizontal "fraccing" tests of gas-rich shale in the Cooper Basis are disappointed with the results. <i>Slugcatcher</i>, however, does not share their gloom.

Newcomers to the shale game could only see what looked to be relatively weak gas flow rates in the Roswell No.2 well of Santos and the Holdfast No.2 well of Beach Energy. "Cooper shale comes up short...

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