Saudi America: The Truth About Fracking and How It's Changing the World
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Bethany McLean
Published 10 Sep 2018
FURTHER READING The Frackers: The Outrageous Inside Story of the New Billionaire Wildcatters by Gregory Zuckerman. This is the in-depth, definitive story by a longtime Wall Street Journal reporter of how wildcatters, from George Mitchell to Harold Hamm of Continental, made fracking into a reality, and made fortunes for themselves in the process. The Boom: How Fracking Ignited the American Energy Revolution and Changed the World by Russell Gold. Gold’s book is also an account of the birth of fracking, but he takes a personal and environmentally minded view. Gold, who also writes for the Wall Street Journal, is an exceptionally fair and factual reporter, and the book is clear about the pros and cons—as well as the reasons why fracking has become such a battleground.
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CHAPTER TWO 40one-bedroom apartment in Williston: According to notes circulated after a meeting of the North Dakota Sheriff & Deputies Association. 41Eagle Ford contained over nine hundred million barrels of oil: Zuckerman. 4271 requests for drilling: The Boom: How Fracking Ignited the American Energy Revolution and Changed the World, Russell Gold, Simon & Schuster, 2014. CHAPTER THREE 46Lavish and Leveraged Life: “Special Report: The Lavish and Leveraged Life of Aubrey McClendon,” John Shiffman, Anna Driver, Brian Grow, Reuters, June 7, 2012. 48debt on its balance sheet: “The Incredible Rise and Final Hours of Fracking King Aubrey McClendon,” Bryan Gruley, Joe Carroll, and Asjylyn Loder, Bloomberg Businessweek, March 10, 2016. 49existence of the billion-dollar-plus loans: “Exclusive: Chesapeake CEO Arranged New $450 Million Loan from Financier,” Jennifer Ablan, Reuters, May 8, 2012. 51print out a map of acreage: Chesapeake Energy Corp. v.
American Made: Why Making Things Will Return Us to Greatness
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Dan Dimicco
Published 3 Mar 2015
By 2021, economists forecast that Eagle Ford shale will generate $62.1 billion in output and more than 82,000 jobs.19 States that produce little or no gas and oil are beginning to see some benefits of the boom. Businesses in New York, Illinois, and South Dakota are providing important goods and services for the oil and gas supply chain. But perhaps more surprising, the one interest that has benefited least from the new oil and gas boom has been Big Oil. According to Forbes, the new American energy revolution is largely the work of about 18,000 small- and medium-sized companies.20 I know it isn’t always obvious, but the entrepreneurial spirit still lives in the United States. It’s helpful to contrast the work of tens of thousands of companies large and small, developing new and more efficient processes and better products, with the top-down efforts by almost all of the world’s governments to combat global warming, which we’re now calling climate change.
Inventor of the Future: The Visionary Life of Buckminster Fuller
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Alec Nevala-Lee
Published 1 Aug 2022
Wholeness: On Education, Buckminster Fuller, and Tao. Kirkland, WA: Gerber Educational Resources, 2001. Gerst, Cole. Buckminster Fuller: Poet of Geometry. Portland, OR: Overcup Press, 2013. Gillette, King C. The Human Drift. Boston: New Era, 1894. Gold, Russell. The Boom: How Fracking Ignited the American Energy Revolution and Changed the World. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2014. Goldhagen, Sarah Williams. Louis Kahn’s Situated Modernism. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2001. Gómez-Jáuregui, Valentín. Tensegrity Structures and their Application to Architecture. Santander, Spain: Cantabria University Press, 2020.
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(The Future, 4) and Spaceship Earth (Al Gore, “Al Gore Weighs In on a Long-Delayed Earth Observatory Launch,” Scientific American online, last modified February 6, 2015, https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/al-gore-weighs-in-on-sunday-s-long-delayed-earth-observatory-launch). “A tremendous mind”: “Drilling Deeper,” PB Oil & Gas, October 1, 2013, https://pboilandgasmagazine.com/drilling-deeper-october-2013 (accessed January 2021). “What are you going to do about it?”: Russell Gold, The Boom: How Fracking Ignited the American Energy Revolution and Changed the World (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2014), 95. “the father of fracking”: Tom Fowler, “‘Father of Fracking’ Dies at 94,” Wall Street Journal, July 26, 2013. Richard Dawkins: “I was once privileged to hear [RBF], in his nineties [sic], lecturing for a mesmerizing three hours without respite” (Richard Dawkins, Climbing Mount Improbable [New York: W.
The Wealth of Humans: Work, Power, and Status in the Twenty-First Century
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Ryan Avent
Published 20 Sep 2016
But there on the northern Plains, west of Minneapolis and north of Denver, where nothing but emptiness ought to be, is a blaze of light as big as Chicago. What has taken over the North Dakota countryside is not a massive new supercity but the fracking wells of the Bakken shale, one manifestation of an extraordinary American energy revolution. The hundreds of wells that dot the land are spot-lit at night, and are occasionally ablaze with light when excess natural gas from the wells is burnt off. Of the new work that resembles the mass employment of the industrial past, jobs in fracking are probably the closest analogue to industrial-era factory jobs.
The Power Surge: Energy, Opportunity, and the Battle for America's Future
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Michael Levi
Published 28 Apr 2013
There are modest exceptions, like somewhat greater climate risks from new oil production if climate sensitivity turns out to be surprisingly large, and bigger economic risks from some new environmental rules meant to foster efficiency and alternatives if economic growth continues to falter. But the broader lesson remains: there are big opportunities to be gained from both of the American energy revolutions that are under way. 8 T HE EN ER G Y O PPORTU N I TY The United States is in the throes of two unfolding energy revolutions. Yet few are celebrating both. A Gallup poll conducted in March 2012 asked Americans a simple question: Should the United States focus on expanding fossil-fuel supplies, or on developing alternative energy sources?
The Boom: How Fracking Ignited the American Energy Revolution and Changed the World
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Russell Gold
Published 7 Apr 2014
For more information or to book an event, contact the Simon & Schuster Speakers Bureau at 1-866-248-3049 or visit our website at www.simonspeakers.com. Interior design by Ruth Lee-Mui Map by Paul J. Pugliese Jacket art and design by FDT Design Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Gold, Russell. The boom : how fracking ignited the American energy revolution and changed the world / Russell Gold. p. cm 1. Petroleum industry and trade—Environmental aspects—United States. 2. Oil wells—Hydraulic fracturing. 3. Energy policy—United States. 4. Energy consumption—United States. I. Title. HD9565.G65 2014 333.8' 230973—dc23 2013028446 ISBN 978-1-4516-9228-0 ISBN 978-1-4516-9230-3 (ebook)
Crude Volatility: The History and the Future of Boom-Bust Oil Prices
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Robert McNally
Published 17 Jan 2017
Reuters, May 22, 2015. http://www.reuters.com/article/saudi-refining-evolution-idUSL5N0YC4AI20150522. Glick, Devin. “A Look at the IEA 2011 Release of Strategic Oil Reserves.” Research paper sponsored by the Institut Français des Relations Internationales. July 28, 2011. https://bakerinstitute.org/files/276/ Gold, Russell. The Boom: How Fracking Ignited the American Energy Revolution and Changed the World. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2014. ——. “No End in Sight for Crude-Oil Glut.” Wall Street Journal Europe, August 21, 2015. Goldwyn, David L., and Michelle Billig. “Building Strategic Reserves.” In Energy & Security: Toward a New Foreign Policy Strategy, edited by Jan H.
Breakout Nations: In Pursuit of the Next Economic Miracles
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Ruchir Sharma
Published 8 Apr 2012
The explosive pace of shale gas development in the United States has also given it a huge lead in building the basic infrastructure and cultivating experienced talent: there are now 425 gas rigs drilling on U.S. lands, compared to about 30 in Europe. Fracking technology took off in the United States because it took advantage of the country’s long-standing strengths, including strong property rights and ready financing for promising entrepreneurial ventures. At its core, the American energy revolution is a technology revolution. The Technology Edge Today, an interesting debate is under way over whether the digital technology revolution is really a big deal in terms of improving U.S. productivity. Leading skeptics about America’s productivity boom, such as Northwestern University economist Robert Gordon, say the computer and the Internet, even when rendered mobile in handheld devices, do less to raise productivity than inventions from previous technology revolutions—particularly the emergence in the late nineteenth century of electricity, the combustion engine, and indoor plumbing.
The Frackers: The Outrageous Inside Story of the New Billionaire Wildcatters
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Gregory Zuckerman
Published 5 Nov 2013
Papa’s announcement did more than confirm EOG’s ascendance in the energy world. It was proof that the Bakken wasn’t a freak, one-off formation and fresh evidence that the country was beginning to pump enough oil and natural gas from shale to shake up the world’s energy order. By then, the big boys of the oil and gas world had taken belated notice of the American energy revolution, one that carried the possibility of American independence, this time from foreign oil. Now the giants had to get in, before it was too late. In 2011 and 2012, London’s BP, Norway’s Statoil ASA, and France’s Total SA each spent billions of dollars for acquisitions, interests, and joint ventures in shale formations in Pennsylvania, Oklahoma, Texas, Arkansas, and elsewhere.
The New Map: Energy, Climate, and the Clash of Nations
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Daniel Yergin
Published 14 Sep 2020
Mitchell: Fracking, Sustainability, and an Unorthodox Quest to Save the Planet (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2019), p. 174 (“livable forest”), p. 23; interview with Dan Steward; Gregory Zuckerman, The Frackers: The Outrageous Inside Story of the New Billionaire Wildcatters (New York: Portfolio/Penguin, 2013), p. 21; Dan Steward, The Barnett Shale Play: Phoenix of the Fort Worth Basin (Fort Worth: Fort Worth Geological Society, 2007); Russell Gold, The Boom: How Fracking Ignited the American Energy Revolution and Changed the World (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2014). 2. Interview with Dan Steward; Steward, The Barnett Shale Play; Gold, The Boom; Steffy, George P. Mitchell, p. 23 (“sad”); Roger Galatas, “Why George Mitchell Sold the Woodlands,” The Woodlands History, December 2011 (“hated”). 3.