My prior comment was poorly worded. The time is 2 years from peak to peak for a simulated shale formation with 80% decline rates (like Haynesville).

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The longer it takes for prices to rise back up to drilling costs the worse the drop in production will be and the more severe the price spike later.


Canadian NEB Short Term Deliverability Report

The NEB report has an appendix which lists the decline models and initial production by region. I thought others might like to see what a model might look like.

I only saw this after my last post. It gives .020 Bcf/d/rig/yr, vs my estimated .016. Horizontal vs current mix could account for that difference. This scenario has 6 months down, 12 months flat, 3 months back up and then 3 months at the new plateau. We are now 8 months down. At $7.00/kcf to encourage drilling, (see Rockman) we are surely in for close to a year flat. then it is very unlikely that a ramp up could be done in anything near 3 months. Also a good percentage of the old vertical rigs will be scrapped and have to be replaced. Looks to me like at least 3 years to get back to Jan 2009, and maybe as much as 4. Murray