Gareth Roberts: "Geology, Optimism, & Something Completely Different"
The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens
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The Permian and Natural Gas
A lot of our shale plays are in decline now, but the Permian is still growing. Shales are very complex rock types. They're not really shale. These are kind of hybrid silk stones that have a high carbonaceous content. And we don't really understand how the oil gets out of there. So it's just a little bit more complicated geologically. Now, now natural gas is a slightly different thing because from a, you know, it's some smaller molecule. Natural gas has got more of a future now, I think, than oil does.
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