Frackers Are in Crisis, Endangering America’s Energy Renaissance

摘要

Twenty years ago, before the U.S. oil industry became a global energy power that strikes fear into SaudiArabia, brothers Dan and Farris Wilks started Frac Tech Services LLC in tiny Cisco, Texas. The companyprovided equipment for hydraulic fracturing, aka fracking, the breaking up of tight sedimentary rock byblasting water, sand, and assorted chemicals through horizontal bores at fantastically high pressure.