Our thanks to George Mitchell: He drilled 10,000 wells during his career, but those in the Barnett shale changed everything

摘要

He was born in Galveston, Texas, in 1919, the son of Greek immigrants, and he died there in July 2013 at age 94, a billionaire. But through the years in between, oh what a life! George P. Mitchell has been highly praised since his passing. Tributes have stacked up from oil and gas industry executives who owe so much to the so-called "father of tracing." Others have mentioned his lifelong love of science, especially of astronomy and physics, and his study of sustainability - the greatest example of which is The Woodlands, Texas, a master-planned community north of Houston that has been emulated by urban planners around the world.