What is unconventional gas?
“Unconventional” gas is the same substance as “conventional” natural gas. The key difference is the manner and ease with which the resource is extracted. Natural gas comes from both ‘conventional’ (easier to produce) and ‘unconventional’ (more difficult to produce) geological formations. Unconventional gas reservoirs include tight gas, coal bed methane, gas hydrates, and shale gas. While most potential unconventional gas reservoirs have been known for many years only recently have technological advancements in drilling and wellbore stimulation allowed for the economic extraction of these resources.
