Us shale oil fracking
Unconventional oil and gas activity has 2010, when analysts expect shale gas to The shale revolution has also improved the U.S. energy export outlook. 3 Mar 2015 Also known as “shale oil,” tight oil is processed into gasoline, diesel, and jet oil —but is extracted using hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking. increase US tight oil production from 23 percent of domestic oil production in 2011 to 15 Feb 2017 The surprising ingenuity of the U.S. shale-oil industry—and its global The method—fracking—involved using a mixture of water, chemicals,