From the lab: Studying shale rocks to extract gas

T N Singh and team
Rock Sciences and Rock Engineering Laboratory, Department of Earth Sciences, IIT Bombay
Around the year 2000, the United States developed technologies to extract shale gas and in the last 15 years, increasing extraction of shale gas has totally transformed the energy economics in that country. It has triggered shale gas extraction in Canada as well. As of now, shale gas extraction is limited almost exclusively to these two countries. But these are not the only ones to have sha