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The Outrageous Inside Story of the New Billionaire Wildcatters
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November 2013
On Sale: November 5, 2013
417 pages
ISBN: 1591846455
EAN: 9781591846451
Kindle: B00C5R7CHK
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Non-Fiction Biography
Everyone knew it was crazy to try to extract oil and
natural gas buried in shale rock deep below the ground.
Everyone, that is, except a few reckless wildcatters - who
risked their careers to prove the world wrong.
Things looked grim for American energy in
2006. Oil production was in steep decline and natural
gas was hard to find. The Iraq War threatened the
nation’s already tenuous relations with the Middle
East. China was rapidly industrializing and competing
for resources. Major oil companies had just about
given up on new discoveries on U.S. soil, and a new
energy crisis seemed likely.
But a
handful of men believed everything was about to
change.
Far from the limelight, Aubrey
McClendon, Harold Hamm, Mark Papa, and other
wildcatters were determined to tap massive deposits of
oil and gas that Exxon, Chevron, and other giants had
dismissed as a waste of time. By experimenting
with hydraulic fracturing through extremely dense
shale—a process now known as fracking—the
wildcatters started a revolution. In just a few years,
they solved America’s dependence on imported energy,
triggered a global environmental controversy—and made
and lost astonishing fortunes. No one
understands these men—their ambitions, personalities,
methods, and foibles—better than the award-winning
Wall Street Journal reporter Gregory Zuckerman.
His exclusive access enabled him to get close to the
frackers and chronicle the untold story of how they
transformed the nation and the world. The result is a
dramatic narrative tracking a brutal competition among
headstrong drillers. It stretches from the barren
fields of North Dakota and the rolling hills of
northeastern Pennsylvania to cluttered pickup trucks in
Texas and tense Wall Street boardrooms.
Activists argue that the same methods that
are creating so much new energy are also harming
our water supply and threatening environmental
chaos. The Frackers tells the story of the angry
opposition unleashed by this revolution and explores
just how dangerous fracking really is.
The frackers have already transformed the
economic, environmental, and geopolitical course
of history. Now, like the Rockefellers and the
Gettys before them, they’re using their wealth and
power to influence politics, education, entertainment,
sports, and many other fields. Their story is one of
the most important of our time.
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