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Trophy Hunting vs. Manufacturing Energy: The Price-Responsiveness of Shale Gas / Richard G. Newell, Brian C. Prest, Ashley Vissing.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Newell, Richard G.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w22532.
- NBER working paper series no. w22532
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Other Title:
- Trophy Hunting vs. Manufacturing Energy
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2016.
- Summary:
- We analyze the relative price elasticity of unconventional versus conventional natural gas extraction. We separately analyze three key stages of gas production: drilling wells, completing wells, and producing natural gas from the completed wells. We find that the important margin is drilling investment, and neither production from existing wells nor completion times respond strongly to prices. We estimate a long-run drilling elasticity of 0.7 for both conventional and unconventional sources. Nonetheless, because unconventional wells produce on average 2.7 times more gas per well than conventional ones, the long-run price responsiveness of supply is almost 3 times larger for unconventional compared to conventional gas.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- August 2016.
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