关键词: 美国, 页岩气, 页岩油, 致密油, 能源消费构成, 新能源

Abstract: Shale gas production has jumped rapidly in the United States since the start of the new century. Gas price drop has also stimulated shale oil development. Both of the US shale oil and gas productions have grown quickly since 2008, enabling the country’s total oil and gas production growth to rank first in the world. It is the main source of the global production growth. Oil and natural gas prices dropped to a relatively low level in the United States. US natural gas consumption growth has lowered the country’s coal consumption and proportion. On the contrary, Europe has seen gas consumption decrease and coal consumption increase in the same period, reflecting a powerful vitality of fossil fuels. Bottlenecks have remained for development of new energy, which is short of market competitiveness and depends on subsidies and preferential policies. Shale oil and gas development can create more liberal environment and conditions for development of new energy.

Key words: the United States, shalegas, shale oil, compactoil, energy consumption structure, newenergy