Not exact matches
And, like a few other U.S.
success stories,
shale deposits
in the state's northeast helped too.
The question of whether other countries can replicate North America's
success in drilling
in shale rocks has captivated geologists and diplomats.
Protesters have been buoyed by the recent
success of Native American groups and environmentalists
in their campaign against construction of the 1,100 - mile (1,770 - km) Dakota Access pipeline, a project spearheaded by Energy Transfer Partners (etp) that would carry oil from North Dakota's Bakken
shale fields into Texas.
Increased output from elsewhere
in the Middle East, as well as resilient supply from US
shale fields and production
successes in Russia and the Gulf of Mexico, all compounded the supply glut and prolonged rebalancing
in 2015.
The Canadians have also had
success in obtaining liquid fuels from the tar sands which accompany the
shales.
Some want to emulate the
success of the United States
in bringing down energy prices via
shale gas - a fossil fuel that can help cut greenhouse emissions if it replaces coal but at the same time can divert investments from cleaner energy.
In many respects, North Dakota has been the top success story in the U.S. over the past couple of years, thanks to the huge impact of oil and gas development in the Bakken shale formatio
In many respects, North Dakota has been the top
success story
in the U.S. over the past couple of years, thanks to the huge impact of oil and gas development in the Bakken shale formatio
in the U.S. over the past couple of years, thanks to the huge impact of oil and gas development
in the Bakken shale formatio
in the Bakken
shale formation.
A key element
in the
success of North American
shale gas production has been combining cost - effective horizontal drilling, a technique developed over the last 30 years, with hydraulic fracturing, which has been practised since the 1940s.
Along with the
success of
shale gas, increased investments
in modernization soon followed.
Since the
success of the Barnett
Shale, natural gas from
shale has been the fastest growing contributor to total primary energy (TPE)
in the United States, and has led many other countries to pursue
shale deposits.