Economical and Environmental Impacts of the Haynesville Shale Natural Gas Field
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The Haynesville Shale, one of the largest natural gas fields in the U.S., contributes significantly to Louisiana's economy. In 2009, it was estimated to produce 22-24 million cubic feet per day per well, injecting approximately $10.6 billion in new business sales into the state. The indirect impacts led to new household earnings of $5.6 billion and created over 57,000 jobs. However, concerns regarding environmental sustainability, water usage, and potential contamination persist. Balancing economic benefits and ecological risks remains critical for sustainable development.
Economical and Environmental Impacts of the Haynesville Shale Natural Gas Field
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Greater Shreveport Chamber of Commerce August 3, 2010 Dr. Loren C. Scott Loren C. Scott & Associates, Inc. www.lorencscottassociates.com
Haynesville Shale • One estimate: 251 tcf of natural gas • One of largest natural gas field in U.S. • Well production • Conventional gas well: 2-3 mmcfd • Fayetteville Shale: 5 mmcfd • Marcellus Shale: 9.8–12 mmcfd • Haynesville Shale: 22-24 mmcfd!!
Impact Methodology • Direct Impacts • How much new $ injected into LA economy in 2009? • Questionnaire sent to firms that operated in the shale in LA • Questionnaire pre-tested • questionnaires received from 7 firms holding about 70% of wells operating in the shale • Adjusted sample to population • Indirect Impacts: • BEA I/O table
2009 Switch from Lease payments to Actual Drilling
Mineral Lease Payments? • Normally: Insert all in I/O table • Assumes 95%+ spent in 2008 • Studies on expenditures out of wealth • Yash Mehra: 5% • Are mineral lease payments like normal wealth or winning the lottery?
Impact Estimates: 2009Assuming 5% of Wealth Spent • $10.6 billion in new business sales • $5.6 billion in new household earnings • 3.5% of LA total • 57,637 jobs • Reference point: 1/10 • 63,600 employed in all non-durable goods manufacturing in LA – chemicals, refining, paper, food products • 59,300 employed in all finance & insurance companies in LA • State lost 38,500 jobs in 2009 (2%) . W/O shale: -96,137 jobs (-5%)
Impact Estimates: 2009Assuming 25% of Wealth Spent • $11 billion (v $10.6 b) in new business sales • $5.7 billion (v $5.6 b) in new household earnings • 60,790 jobs (v 57,637)
Impact: 2009 Tax Collections • Direct taxes: from questionnaires • Indirect taxes: • 7% of new household earnings to state • 5.4% of new household earnings to local governments • Total state and local direct and indirect taxes? • $912.3 mm!!
Local Government Examples • Red River Parish: • 2001: -3.1% • 2008: 71.1% • 2009: 205.1% • DeSoto Parish • FY01: -0.8% • FY08: 3.6% • FY09: 82.2%*
Local Government Examples • Caddo Parish: • 2002: -0.8% • 2008: 7.0% • 2009: 1.4% • Bossier Parish: • 2002: NA • 2008: 4.1% • 2009: 5.5%
E.G.’s Haynesville Shale Spillovers • Energy Transfer Partners: $1.2 bill, 178-mile pipeline • Regency Energy Partners • $47 mm, 46-mile Red River Lateral • +100,000 mmbtu/d of additional capacity • Schlumberger (3/09) • $48 mm investment (finish 09) • 450 new jobs (Q1-10) • Northwest Pipe: • Reopening mid-2010 after 3 years • Relocating recently modernized mill from Portland, OR • +120 jobs @$39,000
Losses: 2009 • BTR -4,600 -1.2% • MO -1,700 -1.3% • NO -7,100 -1.4% • Shrev -4,900 -2.7%* • Laf -4,400 -2.9% • Alex -2,000 -3.0% • Houma -3,600 -3.7% • LC -3,800 -4.0% • * Projected last 12 months ago
Impacts over 2010-14 • YearSales EarningsJobs • 2010 $16.9 bill $4.3 Bill 111,329 • 2011 $12.0 bill $3.1 bill 76,339 • 2012 $11.3 bill $2.9 bill 69,424 • 2013 $10.6 bill $2.7 bill 62,883 • 2014 $10.6 bill $2.7 bill 60,637
Impacts on State Budget • YearSeveranceIndirectTotal • 2010 $2.1 mm $301.7 mm $303.7 mm • 2011 $12.1 mm $213.7 mm $225.8 mm • 2012 $24.4 mm $210.1 mm $225.5 mm • 2013 $62.6 mm $188.6 mm $251.2 mm • 2014 $94.1 mm $188.6 mm $282.7 mm • *Plus royalties (un-estimated)
Impacts on Local Budgets • YearLocal Tax Revenues • 2010 $232.7 mm • 2011 $164.9 mm • 2012 $155.1 mm • 2013 $145.5 mm • 2014 $145.5 mm
Shale Plays & Water • Lots of water needed for fracing • EIA: 2-4 mm gallons per well. (Simmons says 7 mm gallons per well) • Where to get this amount of water? • Depletion of aquifers? • What to do with water afterwards • Fluids are mostly water but also contain sand and about 2% chemicals • Groundwater contamination? • Treated & discharged, injected into underground wells, recycled for further use • Government could halt water use under Clean Air Act of 1972 as early as end of 2010
#1: The oil spill Things to consider
Environmental Calamity • Hammering fisheries • But fisheries small in the impacted economies • LA #2 in fish catch; total landed value of shrimp, oysters, menhaden & crab = $248 mm • Total value along northern GOM coast: $661.4 mm • Ditto for recreational fishing: $108.1 mm in LA • Most will make more $s from cleanup than from fishing • BP hired 1,300 boats @ $1,200-$3,000 per boat + $200 per deck hand ($560 mm over 180 days)
Environmental Calamity • Tourism: Very bad from East of Mobile Bay to tip of FL • About 50,000 condos from Pensacola to Panama City • Economies here are tourism and military • Should be short run • Little impact to the East – LA & MS
Oil & Gas industry:The Moratorium • Moratorium on deepwater drilling (now any wells using sub-sea BOPs or surface BOPs on a floating facility) • Drill ships (@$250k-$500k per day) will declare force majeure & leave for Brazil, West Africa, Australia---sign 3-4 year contracts in new location (Diamond Drilling has already moved 2 ships) • 33 rigs impacted (?); about 8,000 direct jobs • Direct wages @$1,800 per week: about $748 mm a year • Multiplier effect: about 30,000 – 35,000 jobs
Oil & Gas industry:The Moratorium • Moratorium Study Commission • Not a single member with the skill set to analyze the problem • Loaded with anti-fossil fuels people • Frances Beinecke – President of Natural Resources Defense Council • Don Boesch – President of U. of Maryland Center for Environmental Science • Terry Garcia – Ex. VP for Missions Program for National Geographic • Frances Ulmer – Chancellor of U. of Alaska Anchorage & member of Aspen Institute’s Commission on Artic Climate Change & Member of Alaska Nature Conservancy • Bob Graham, retired congressman from FL • Co-Chair William Reilly: First meeting in mid-July and report “next year”
Oil & Gas industry:The Moratorium • Morgan Stanley • 5% chance lasting 6 months • 60% chance lasting 12-18 months • 35% chance lasting up to 4 years
Oil & Gas industry:The Insurance Issue • Impacts of the spill on insurance costs in general • Actuaries in insurance companies have seen the spill: “Oh shoot!” • Moody’s Investor Services study: Already • Shallow water: +25%; deepwater: +50% already • Raising liability cap from $75 mm to $10 billion • Result: Independents driven out of the Gulf
Oil & Gas industry:The Governance Issue • Plethora of new bills introduced into Congress to regulate the industry and force the industry to pay for the regulation. • Meeting w Boggs Law Firm: • CEOs of companies drilling in Gulf must certify that operations in Gulf in full compliance with all MMS regulations: Criminal penalties. • Shifts MC curve upward = less activity • Wood McKenzie 5/10 report: 10% increase in development cost renders 7 current discoveries in the Gulf uneconomical.
Other Key facts • Measurement of spill non-trivial to BP • Fines based on volume of spill: $4,300 per barrel (?) • 3X higher if criminal fine • Through mid-June: w/o criminal penalty - $4.3 to $8.6 billion • Shut down the GOM: Silly • 33% of US oil production from the GOM • 18.7% of US oil production from deep waters • 10% of US natural gas production from GOM • 5% of US natural gas production from deep waters • Just switch to alternative energy like wind and solar: Equally silly
Wind Power • Four pivotal limitations; • Intermittency: • When will the wind blow? • When it is not, need base load electrical generating capacity from traditional sources • Cost • People do not want to live near them • Billboards no; windmills yes???
Windmills – Bird Kills • Altamont Pass - 50-square mile site between San Francisco and the Central Valley in Diablo Mountains: 4,000 windmills • July 2008 study: annual bird count: 10,000 birds • 1,300 raptors: Golden eagles (80 annually), red-tailed hawks, burrowing owls & others • Windmills in Blackbone Mountains in VA: • 2004 research – killed 4,000 bats
Robert Bryce in “Power Hungry” “If you are anti-carbon and anti-nuclear, you are pro brownout.”
You worried about spills? How about this one?
Obama’s Energy Policy • $36.5 billion tax on the extraction industry • Eliminate expensing of intangible drilling costs • Eliminate allowance for percentage depletion • Repeal of domestic manufacturing tax deduction for O&G companies, making refiners the only domestic manufacturers not covered by the manufacturing tax credit.
Oil Companies Don’t Pay Taxes • Robert Shapiro and Nam Pham study of oil company stock ownership • 43% owned by mutual funds and asset management companies that have mutual funds • 55 million Americans • Medium income: $68,700 • 27% owned by other institutional investors like pension funds • 2004: 2,600+ pension funds run by federal, state and local governments held $64 billion in oil company shares • 14% held in IRA’s and personal retirement accounts held by 45 million Americans
Energy Companies Don’t Pay Taxes? • 2009 US Chamber of Commerce study • Income taxes as a share of net income before taxation: • All manufacturing in US: 26.7% • Oil & Gas industry: 40.4%
Greater Shreveport Chamber of Commerce August 3, 2010 Dr. Loren C. Scott Loren C. Scott & Associates, Inc. www.lorencscottassociates.com