Discussion on shale gas production sustainability raises the question of shale gas well profitability. The study presents a well economics model incorporating key geologic and production features of shale gas. The model is used to demonstrate analytically how profitability of a well may change...

We evaluate the economics of drilling new wells in the Barnett Shale, Fort Worth Basin, Texas. The analysis is the most granular public study to date because it is based on 10 productivity tiers and it treats low and high Btu (British thermal unit) segments of the play differently. The study is...