[Bring_Back_Shantz]

Originally posted by fotze@Oct 20 2005, 12:06 PM
What are you talking about. Shell in Canada is all about very deep and usually very sour gas. When they drill a well it is a big mutherfudger. I joke with them all the time about not knowing what the hell they would do if they ever happened upon a sweet gas well. They are just starting to get in to the CBM scene in the past few years but they stick to the foothills almost exclusively. My comment was that they are pretty different on a whole, with their safety policies (from sour drilling) they couldn't drill a cheap well if they tried (of course in jest a bit).

Also Shell has about 500 wells compared to 32,000 for Encana in Alberta alone. Which is why I would think in this case they possibly do it the other way somehow. I know the Shell policies would all be implemented but it would probably go more smooth if they just added something like a foothills group.

I agree that their production is very different, hence the comment about not having the expertise to do what Encana does. The big point was that from a technical standpoint (as I don't know how the company works internally) that for them to do conventional shallow gas is a far cry easier than what they do and that they could easily pick it up. But that isn't what Encana does, in the last few years Encana has gotten rid of most of it's conventional assets and is focusing on unconventional assets.

Could Shell do shallow gas (from a technical standpoint) of course, anyone can.
Could they do what Encana does? Likely not.