Posts focused on hydraulic fracturing in tight natural gas formations
The Age of Petroleum is in its infancy In 1973, and again in 1979, the world was subject to ‘energy crises’ as they were termed at the time. Many readers are too young but those of us who were around recall sitting in long lines in the cold of winter (1973) or the blistering heat…
At what point does something become an actual, bona fide controversy. In the strictest sense of the word a controversy is essentially the opposite of a conversation. They are two words built on the same two roots: con and versa. When you discuss a topic WITH someone you converse with them; literally, to have a…
Ah, Pennsylvania. My glorious home state. The Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, Old Glory, the country’s first oil well, birthplace of US Steel, Bethlehem Steel, Portland Cement, Harley Davidson, Martin Guitars, Easter Peeps, and home to that pre-eminent neo-climatologist, Punxatawny Phil. It is also the hub of what could be the world’s most productive shale…
In Suspect Terrane 