3/4 The Frackers: The Outrageous Inside Story of the New Billionaire Wildcatters, by Gregory Zuckerman.
Image: Shale gas drilling rig near Alvarado, Texas. Permissions: see below. The Frackers: The Outrageous Inside Story of the New Billionaire Wildcatters, by Gregory Zuckerman (https://www.amazon.com/Gregory-Zuckerman/e/B002NWVK2K/ref=dp_byline_cont_audible_1) . Sean Pratt (https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=dp_byline_sr_audible_2?ie=UTF8&search-alias=audible&field-keywords=Sean+Pratt) (Narrator), Gildan Media, LLC (https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=dp_byline_sr_audible_3?ie=UTF8&search-alias=audible&field-keywords=Gildan+Media%2C+LLC) (Publisher) Audible Audiobook – Unabridged https://www.amazon.com/Frackers-Outrageous-Inside-Billionaire-Wildcatters/dp/B00GDJKH2I/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Zuckerman+the+frackers&qid=1584312288&s=audible&sr=1-1 Everyone knew it was crazy to try to extract oil and natural gas buried in shale rock deep below the ground. Everyone, that is, except a few reckless wildcatters, who risked their careers to prove the world wrong. Things looked grim for American energy in 2006. Oil production was in steep decline and natural gas was hard to find. The Iraq War threatened the nation's already-tenuous relations with the Middle East. China was rapidly industrializing and competing for resources. Major oil companies had just about given up on new discoveries on U.S. soil, and a new energy crisis seemed likely. But a handful of men believed everything was about to change. Far from the limelight, Aubrey McClendon, Harold Hamm, Mark Papa, and other wildcatters were determined to tap massive deposits of oil and gas that Exxon, Chevron, and other giants had dismissed as a waste of time. By experimenting with hydraulic fracturing through extremely dense shale—a process now known as fracking—the wildcatters started a revolution. In just a few years, they solved America's dependence on imported energy, triggered a global environmental controversy—and made and lost astonishing fortunes. No one understands these men better than the award-winning Wall Street Journal reporter Gregory Zuckerman. His exclusive access enabled him to get close to the frackers and chronicle the untold story of how they transformed the nation and the world. The result is a dramatic stretching from the barren fields of North Dakota and the rolling hills of northeastern Pennsylvania to cluttered pickup trucks in Texas and tense Wall Street boardrooms. Activists argue that the same methods that are creating so much new energy are also harming our water supply and threatening environmental chaos. The Frackers tells the story of the angry opposition unleashed by this revolution and explores just how dangerous fracking really is. .. Permissions: | English: Texas Barnett Shale (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barnett_Shale) gas drilling (fracking (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydraulic_fracturing) ) rig near Alvarado, Texas (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alvarado,_Texas) , just off of state highway 67. | Date | 19 April 2008, 19:36 | Source | Own work | Author | Loadmaster (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Loadmaster) (David R. Tribble) | Permission (Reusing this file (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Commons:Reusing_content_outside_Wikimedia) ) | | This image (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5d/BarnettShaleDrilling-9323.jpg) was made by Loadmaster (David R. Tribble) (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Loadmaster) Email the author: David R. Tribble (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:EmailUser/Loadmaster) Also see my personal gallery at Google Photos (https://get.google.com/albumarchive/116781016251009423557) | Released under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/GNU_Free_Documentation_License) and the Creative Commons (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Creative_Commons) Attribution ShareAlike License | | Licensing I, the copyright holder of this work, hereby publish it under the following licenses: | This file is licensed under the Creative Commons (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Creative_Commons) Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/deed.en) license. | | You are free: • to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the work • to remix – to adapt the work Under the following conditions: • attribution – You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use. • share alike – If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you must distribute your contributions under the same or compatible license (https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/licensing-considerations/compatible-licenses) as the original.