Horn River shale-gas stash third largest in North America

Canada's National Energy Board says the Horn River ranks third among North American shale-gas deposits

BRITISH Columbia’s Horn River basin ranks third among the shale-gas deposits in North America, although it trails far behind Marcellus and Haynesville in the US, according to a joint study by Canada’s National Energy Board (NEB) and the province’s ministry of energy and mines. The research shows Horn River, in the most distant northeast portion of the province, contains 3 trillion cubic feet (cf) of discovered marketable unconventional gas and 75 trillion cf of undiscovered resources. In contrast, BC’s conventional gas reserves are 52 trillion cf, while the Western Canada Sedimentary basin, which includes Horn River and is Canada’s largest hydrocarbon region, has 197 trillion cf of remaining