U.S. Energy: from importing countries to exporting countries shift

Global shale gas revolution first occurred in the United States, shale gas is expected to bring a lot to the U.S. energy industry's transformation.
First,Frac sand shale gas is expected to change U.S. energy consumption structure. U.S. energy consumption is mainly dependent on oil, gas and coal. Renewable energy technologies have a certain development, such as solar, wind, geothermal and biomass power generation, but has not yet achieved scale use, it can not in the country's future energy consumption structure play an important role.
Quite a long time in the future, natural gas will remain the major U.S. energy consumption type, the proportion of total U.S. energy consumption,frac proppant more than 1/4, while shale gas will be the main source of future U.S. natural gas. Therefore, shale gas production is expected to change the United States, even a wider range of energy markets. Current U.S. shale gas industry is in a state of prosperity, Pennsylvania, Louisiana and Texas all existing shale gas reserves into production, are constantly found new reserves, such as Marcellus, Igor Ford and Utica reserves.
Secondly, shale gas is expected to change the pattern of U.S. energy imports. Traditionally, the United States from Canada, mainly rely on imports to meet demand for natural gas, shale gas development and production in recent years, so that it can become self-sufficient in natural gas consumption. In 2008, the total U.S. natural gas imports accounted for 13% of supply. This figure is expected to 2035 to 1%. Moreover, the U.S. is also prepared in the global gas market to play a more important role - the United States has been adjusted part of the original imported natural gas processing and conversion facilities to export LNG in the form of shale gas resources.
Again, shale gas is expected to change the direction of U.S. energy investment. U.S. shale gas development speed and scale of potential resources to bring great pressure on manufacturers, requiring them to quickly enhance their human resources and technical strength.ceramic proppant The United States will increase investment in the future, to address shale gas drilling, processing and transportation of specialized equipment supply shortage. U.S. energy companies in addition to large-scale development of domestic shale gas resources, but also look overseas to China, Argentina and other shale gas reserves are huge, but the scale of production in the country has not yet formed to invest.