Notably, the United States has reduced carbon emissions 14 percent since 2005, with about two - thirds of those reductions attributable to increased natural gas use made possible
by hydraulic fracturing technology.
Gas turbines are also attractive because natural gas is relatively cheap and abundant, due in part to the introduction
of hydraulic fracturing technology, or fracking, which uses high - pressure water to extract hydrocarbons from previously inaccessible shale deposits.
It looks as if the study - conducted by a team led by Robert Howarth, and to be published in May's Climatic Change Letters - has put shale - gas, extracted using
controversial hydraulic fracturing technology, at the top of the climate impact bad - boy league.
Now, it is suddenly plentiful and relatively cheap in the U.S. due to
hydraulic fracturing technology, or fracking, a process that has unlocked natural gas from massive shale formations, driving prices down.
Industry executives and state officials remembered McClendon as a «visionary» who ushered in a new era of U.S. energy abundance by pursuing
the hydraulic fracturing technology that would unlock decades» worth of domestic natural gas and oil resources.
Tim Harper and Paul Martins improved the drilling technique, called «
hydraulic fracturing technology».
«Recent U.S. production growth has centered largely in a few key regions and has been driven by advances in the application of horizontal drilling and
hydraulic fracturing technologies.»
The «comprehensive long - term energy policies and strategies» slogan also ignores where the real progress of recent years has been made: in the private sector, especially the petroleum industry, where revolutionary horizontal drilling and
hydraulic fracturing technologies have unlocked centuries of oil and natural gas worldwide.
The interest in natural gas combustion as a potential solution to climate change has been gaining because US ghg emissions have fallen somewhat as natural gas from
hydraulic fracturing technologies has been rapidly replacing coal in electricity sector generation.