The Frackers: The Outrageous Inside Story of the New Billionaire Wildcatters

摘要

This book is about the people who developed and employed new techniques for extracting oil and natural gas from shale formations in the United States beginning in the 1980s and continuing to the present day. These individuals ("wildcatters") have transformed the domestic oil and gas industry by significantly increasing domestic production and reducing dependence on foreign sources, while the major U.S. oil companies had virtually abandoned the United States by shifting exploration and development abroad.