Analysis of the economics of shale gas exploitation and the influence factors
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Abstract
The doubt about the economics of shale gas exploitation is one of the most important factors that affect the investors' enthusiasm and industrialization development.So we develop a set of method to evaluate the economics of shale gas exploitation in consideration of the production characteristics of a single shale gas well.Then influence factors that affect the economics of shale gas exploitation were analyzed under the China's present cost and nature gas price.The results show that there are some economics produced by American typical shale gas exploitation,and the pressure coefficient and the reservoir conditions are the two important factors that influence the exploitation economics,and in some extent the two factors can alternative.Besides we can reduce the developing cost and the operation cost to increase the economic efficiency by improving exploitation technology and realizing scale development quickly.
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