The DOI matches its Crossref record; 25 of the 25 references it cites were found in a registry or an index.
The shale gas revolution: Barriers, sustainability, and emerging opportunities
Open accessAbstract
Shale gas and hydraulic refracturing has revolutionized the US energy sector in terms of prices, consumption, and CO2 emissions. However, key questions remain including environmental concerns and extraction efficiencies that are leveling off. For the first time, we identify key discoveries, lessons learned, and recommendations from this shale gas revolution through extensive data mining and analysis of 23 years of production from 20,000 wells. Discoveries include identification of a learning-by-doing process where disruptive technology innovation led to a doubling in shale gas extraction, how refracturing with emerging technologies can transform existing wells, and how overall shale gas production is actually dominated by long-term tail production rather than the high-profile initial exponentially-declining production in the first 12 months. We hypothesize that tail production can be manipulated, through better fracturing techniques and alternative working fluids such as CO2, to increase shale gas recovery and minimize environmental impacts such as through carbon sequestration.
Overview
The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.
Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.
Integrity signals
Registry
Cites
Statistics
Verification
Claims the paper makes
The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.
Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.
Self-check
Percentages, sums and reported differences re-computed from the paper’s own numbers.
The self-check needs the paper’s full text.
Citations
Cites
Ellsworth, W. L. (2013) · Science · doi:10.1126/science.1225942 · Cited by 2,436
Impact of Shale Gas Development on Regional Water Quality
Vidic, R. D., Brantley, S. L., Vandenbossche, J. M., Yoxtheimer, D., & Abad, J. D. (2013) · Science · doi:10.1126/science.1235009 · Cited by 1,406
Methane contamination of drinking water accompanying gas-well drilling and hydraulic fracturing
Osborn, S. G., Vengosh, A., Warner, N. R., & Jackson, R. B. (2011) · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · doi:10.1073/pnas.1100682108 · Cited by 1,285
Methane Leaks from North American Natural Gas Systems
Brandt, A. R., Heath, G. A., Kort, E. A., O'Sullivan, F., Pétron, G., Jordaan, S. M., Tans, P., Wilcox, J., Gopstein, A. M., Arent, D., et al. (2014) · Science · doi:10.1126/science.1247045 · Cited by 909
Shale gas and non-aqueous fracturing fluids: Opportunities and challenges for supercritical CO2
Middleton, R. S., Carey, J. W., Currier, R. P., Hyman, J. D., Kang, Q., Karra, S., Jiménez-Martínez, J., Porter, M. L., & Viswanathan, H. S. (2015) · Applied Energy · doi:10.1016/j.apenergy.2015.03.023 · Cited by 813
Self-citationShale gas development impacts on surface water quality in Pennsylvania
Olmstead, S. M., Muehlenbachs, L. A., Shih, J.-S., Chu, Z., & Krupnick, A. J. (2013) · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · doi:10.1073/pnas.1213871110 · Cited by 379
Induced seismicity and hydraulic fracturing for the recovery of hydrocarbons
Davies, R. J., Foulger, G. R., Bindley, A., & Styles, P. (2013) · Marine and Petroleum Geology · doi:10.1016/j.marpetgeo.2013.03.016 · Cited by 364
Toward a better understanding and quantification of methane emissions from shale gas development
Caulton, D. R., Shepson, P. B., Santoro, R. L., Sparks, J. P., Howarth, R. W., Ingraffea, A. R., Cambaliza, M. O. L., Sweeney, C., Karion, A., Davis, K. J., et al. (2014) · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · doi:10.1073/pnas.1316546111 · Cited by 358
Armstrong, R. C., Wolfram, C., de Jong, K. P., Gross, R., Lewis, N. S., Boardman, B., Ragauskas, A. J., Ehrhardt-Martinez, K., Crabtree, G., & Ramana, M. V. (2016) · Nature Energy · doi:10.1038/nenergy.2015.20 · Cited by 332
Evaluating a groundwater supply contamination incident attributed to Marcellus Shale gas development
Llewellyn, G. T., Dorman, F., Westland, J. L., Yoxtheimer, D., Grieve, P., Sowers, T., Humston-Fulmer, E., & Brantley, S. L. (2015) · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · doi:10.1073/pnas.1420279112 · Cited by 290
Cited by
Jin, L., Hawthorne, S., Sorensen, J., Pekot, L., Kurz, B., Smith, S., Heebink, L., Herdegen, V., Bosshart, N., Torres, J., et al. (2017) · Applied Energy · doi:10.1016/j.apenergy.2017.10.054 · Cited by 282
Metadata
- Authors
- Middleton, R. S., Gupta, R., Hyman, J. D., & Viswanathan, H. S.
- Venue
- Applied Energy
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2017-08
- Volume
- 199
- Pages
- 88-95
- ISSN
- 0306-2619 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2612780680
- Cited by
- 359
- References
- 25
- FWCI
- 25.95
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- hybrid
About these checks
Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.
Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.
Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.
What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›
Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review
How to cite
Cite CoChat for the checks on this page, and the paper for its own findings.
- This page
- CoChat. (2026). Citation check: The shale gas revolution: Barriers, sustainability, and emerging opportunities. https://app.cochat.ai/papers/10.1016/j.apenergy.2017.04.034
- The paper
- Middleton, R. S., Gupta, R., Hyman, J. D., & Viswanathan, H. S. (2017). The shale gas revolution: Barriers, sustainability, and emerging opportunities. Applied Energy. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apenergy.2017.04.034
Data sources
Bibliographic data: Semantic Scholar, OpenAlex, Crossref.
Contains information from the Semantic Scholar Academic Graph Datasets, made available under the ODC Attribution License (ODC-BY 1.0).
Semantic Scholar’s data is described in: Kinney, R., et al. (2023). The Semantic Scholar Open Data Platform. arXiv:2301.10140.
