The Frackers: The Outrageous Inside Story of the New Billionaire Wildcatters
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| Rating | : | 4.10 (674 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B00GDJKH2I |
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| Number of Pages | : | 186 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-02-12 |
| Language | : | English |
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A very interesting read! startup_eng1 Not knowing much about fracking, but wanting to know what all the controversy was about I chose this book to get me up to speed. It was a great book to start with. It provided history about fracking and identified the key players who made it happen. It also explained the interaction between the companies and state and federal governments; current through the end of 2013. It also touched on the state of fracking in other countries outside the U.. "Live from the Permian Basin" according to Pendejo Grande. Because I live in an oilfield community and because I don't rely on the oilfield to put food on the table, I found this book extremely interesting. I'm an educator who has at times supplemented my income by working summers and weekends in the oilfield. Since I had to have a Commercial Drivers Licence to drive a bus as a part of my real job, it wasn't much of a stretch to get a tractor/trailer and tanker endorsement and haul water into and out o. A Fascinating Read Mike Moody As the title says, this book is primarily a history of five or six prominent players in the shale fracking energy revolution. Some were lifelong wildcatters, others were simply investors interested in the oil and gas industry and the book focuses primarily on them and others to give a history of fracking in the US. The writing is excellent, the story flows smoothly, and the characters are quite colorful. From an Egyptian-born former restaurant
No one understands these men better than the award-winning Wall Street Journal reporter Gregory Zuckerman. The Iraq War threatened the nation's already tenuous relations with the Middle East. But a handful of men believed everything was about to change. The result is a dramatic stretching 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. The Frackers tells the story of the angry opposition unleashed by this revolution and explores just how dangerous fracking really is.. By experimenting with hy