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Driving Asia’s Shale Development: Optimising Attractiveness for Potential Investors

Prospective shale countries in the Asia Pacific region are in a global competition for talent, technology, capital, and industry attention.

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Published on Nov 7, 2014
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The Carnegie Oil Initiative analyzed global oils, assessing their differences from climate, environmental, economic, and geopolitical perspectives. This knowledge provides strategic guidance and policy frameworks for decision making.

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Source: World Shale Oil and Gas Summit

David Livingston spoke at the World Shale Oil and Gas Summit, where he addressed the outlook for unconventional hydrocarbons in Asia, the need to fill data and policy gaps, as well as the geopolitical implications of increasing unconventional oil production in the Asia-Pacific region.  He later participated in a panel with government officials from Australia, China, and India to discuss these issues as applied to individual country cases.

This presentation was originally given at the World Shale and Oil Gas Summit.

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David Livingston

Former Associate Fellow, Energy and Climate Program

Livingston was an associate fellow in Carnegie’s Energy and Climate Program, where his research focuses on emerging markets, technologies, and risks.

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