Unconventional Gas & Oil

Reducing the Risk, Production Costs, and Environmental Footprint of Unconventional Gas

Energy resources to produce clean fuels are available in plentiful supply, and technology is key in unlocking unconventional gas resource potential in an environmentally and economically sustainable way. As development occurs throughout the world, it opens up tremendous opportunities for energy security and reduced climate change risk.

GTI is providing new tools, data, practices, and thought leadership to ensure the safe, economical, and responsible development of global shale gas.

GTI report for Canada’s Oil Sands Innovation Alliance (COSIA)

Advanced Steam Generation: Technologies for Canadian Oil Sands

Key Initiatives

Delivering high-impact, value-added research and technical services

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Minimizing environmental impacts and increasing recovery rates with the Hydraulic Fracturing Test Site (HFTS) program

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Screening Technology Options to Treat, Manage, and Minimize Produced Water Issues

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Developing Cost-Efficient and Effective Ways to Mitigate Methane Emissions With an Integrated Burner/Thermoelectric System

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Direct Contact Steam Generator (DCSG) for Enhanced Oil Recovery Using Produced Water

Success Stories

Improving the Industry’s Understanding about the Fundamentals of Hydraulic Fracturing

GTI’s hydraulic fracturing research began as early as 1983, leading to “proof-of-concept” experiments at its Hydraulic Fracture…

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Planning and Managing an Extensive Coalbed Methane Technology Development and Deployment Program

As a result of its early work in the 1980s, GTI provided a fundamental understanding about coalbed…

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Enabling Knowledge and Technology Transfer for Global Unconventional Gas Development

GTI is now sharing lessons learned from the U.S. unconventional gas revolution with the rest of the…

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Managing the RPSEA Unconventional Natural Gas Research Program and Leading Field-Based Research

Under contract to the Research Partnership to Secure Energy for America (RPSEA), GTI managed the unconventional natural…

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Developing Tools for Boosting Gas Production and Reducing Production Costs From Tight Gas Sands

GTI contributed to the industry’s understanding about how to increase the amount of cost-competitive gas recoverable from…

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​Unlocking the Potential of Unconventional Gas

The successful extraction of gas from the Barnett Shale formation in Texas in the 1990s by George…

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Managing Produced Water

For over 20 years, GTI has worked with academia, government, and industry to develop solutions for the…

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Increasing Gas Production From Shales

GTI research on gas production from shale resources has yielded significant new knowledge. An early effort in…

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Commercialized Products

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PerfExtra: A Step Change in Hydraulic Fracturing

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Legacy Technical Achievements

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Fracture Diagnostics

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Produced Water Management

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FracPro: Fracture Design Modeling Software

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