Estimated Shale Gas Technically Recoverable Resources for Select Basins in 32 Countries -- EIA

Extracted from the EIA's overview, World Shale Gas Resources: An Initial Assessment of 14 Regions Outside the United States, April 5, 2011

Table 1. Estimated Shale Gas Technically Recoverable Resources for Select Basins in 32 Countries, Compared to Existing Reported Reserves, Production and Consumption during 2009 -- EIA 

	2009 Natural Gas Market1                             (trillion cubic feet, dry basis)			Proved Natural Gas Reserves2 (trillion cubic feet)	Technically Recoverable Shale Gas Resources (trillion cubic feet)
	Production	Consumption	Imports (Exports)
Europe
France	0.03	1.73	98%	0.2	180
Germany	0.51	3.27	84%	6.2	8
Netherlands	2.79	1.72	(62%)	49.0	17
Norway	3.65	0.16	(2,156%)	72.0	83
U.K.	2.09	3.11	33%	9.0	20
Denmark	0.30	0.16	(91%)	2.1	23
Sweden	-	0.04	100%		41
Poland	0.21	0.58	64%	5.8	187
Turkey	0.03	1.24	98%	0.2	15
Ukraine	0.72	1.56	54%	39.0	42
Lithuania	-	0.10	100%		4
Others(3)	0.48	0.95	50%	2.71	19
North America
United States(4)	20.6	22.8	10%	272.5	862
Canada	5.63	3.01	(87%)	62.0	388
Mexico	1.77	2.15	18%	12.0	681
Asia[-Pacific]
China	2.93	3.08	5%	107.0	1,275
India	1.43	1.87	24%	37.9	63
Pakistan	1.36	1.36	-	29.7	51
Australia	1.67	1.09	(52%)	110.0	396
Africa
South Africa	0.07	0.19	63%	-	485
Libya	0.56	0.21	(165%)	54.7	290
Tunisia	0.13	0.17	26%	2.3	18
Algeria	2.88	1.02	(183%)	159.0	231
Morocco	0.00	0.02	90%	0.1	11
Western Sahara	-	-		-	7
Mauritania	-	-		1.0	0
South America
Venezuela	0.65	0.71	9%	178.9	11
Colombia	0.37	0.31	(21%)	4.0	19
Argentina	1.46	1.52	4%	13.4	774
Brazil	0.36	0.66	45%	12.9	226
Chile	0.05	0.10	52%	3.5	64
Uruguay	-	0.00	100%		21
Paraguay	-	-			62
Bolivia	0.45	0.10	(346%)	26.5	48
Total of above areas	53.1	55.0	3%	1,001[*]	6,622
Total world	106.5	106.7	0%	6,609

 Sources [and Notes]:
¹Dry production and consumption: EIA, International Energy Statistics, as of March 8, 2011.
² Proved gas reserves: Oil and Gas Journal, Dec., 6, 2010, P. 46-49.
³Romania, Hungary, Bulgaria.
⁴U.S. data are from various EIA sources.

[*Excluding the United States – D.R.]

(Please see my post "World Shale Gas Resources Outside US Assessed," here. -- D.R.)