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    Platts: FEATURE: Russia's Gazprom skeptical of US-led shale gas boom

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Gazprom skeptical of US shale boom and says it's economically unsustainable and US exports are will not likely materialize for economic and regulatory reasons.

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Platts: FEATURE: Russia's Gazprom skeptical of US-led shale gas boom

Russia's state-owned natural gas company says the US shale-gas boom is economically unsustainable -- and it's buttressing its claim with financial data collected by an American consulting firm located less than 20 miles from the White House. 

Moscow-based Gazprom, the world's largest gas company, has been working with Pace Global Energy Services, a consulting firm in Fairfax, Virginia, to analyze how much money US gas companies are spending on hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling.  MORE