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310 comments on DrumBeat: August 9, 2006

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yashko on August 9, 2006 - 1:08pm

Maybe the rounding number is "one-third of the increase in NGL's," or "approximately one standard deviation for our WAG on NGL's." I know Colin Campbell is trying to be helpful by including gas in his chart and calculations, but I think it is misleading-- we simply can't chart gas the same way we chart oil.

Who knows what amount of gas was flared in the past? A Hubbert linearization doesn't work for gas, and won't, imho, until we are about one-third of the way down the slope for gas. There is not the same time lag between discovery and production, or the same depletion rates. Just take the gas out of the chart, already, and go back to crude.