Zhongmin Wang

TL;DR: The authors reviewed the economic, policy, and technology history of shale gas development in the United States and found that government policy, private entrepreneurship, technology innovations, private land and mineral rights ownership, high natural gas prices in the 2000s, and a number of other factors all made important contributions to the shale gas boom.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors use the US shale gas experience to shed light on how China might overcome the innovation problem inherent in exploring and developing shale gas plays with complex geology, and separate shale gas development into two stages, an innovation stage and a scaling-up stage, with the first presenting a much bigger challenge than the latter.

TL;DR: In this article, a macro assessment of the environmental risks of shale gas development in China is presented, and the authors recommend China to conduct a strategic environmental assessment and to consider sector-specific environmental regulations for risk assessment.

TL;DR: In the past decade or so, natural gas produced from shale formations (shale gas), experienced an extraordinary boom in the United States, accounting for only 1.6 percent of total US natural gas production in 2000 but an astonishing 40.4 percent by 2012 as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: This paper reviewed the economic, policy, and technology history of shale gas development in the United States and found that government policy, private entrepreneurship, technology innovations, private land and mineral rights ownership, high natural gas prices in the 2000s, and a number of other factors all made important contributions to the shale gas boom.