Their firms are acquiring overseas assets to gain horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing technology in addition to the exploration partnerships mentioned above. (americanprogress.org)
«In the past decade we saw just such a disruptive step - change technology innovation in fracturing technology in shale oil. (haskayne.ucalgary.ca)
Crawley, the former Program Manager at the federal Energy Research and Development Administration (ERDA, a precursor to the Department of Energy), oversaw a significant portion of the federal research that went into the development of shale gas fracturing technologies. (thebreakthrough.org)