I went up to Oklahoma City a couple weeks ago to shoot a story for New York Times about new techniques in gas exploration. Europeans are jumping on the opportunity to learn advanced techniques to extract the gas from shale deposits. It promises to be a great way to get away from Russia’s oil grip, and it seems pretty awesome for the US as well considering how large these shale deposits are. From what I’ve heard, this is a clean energy, or at least cleaner than coal, and has some great potential for new engineering techniques. I am obviously skeptical about the environmental impacts of the new technologies and how this will turn out in the long run. It sparks my curiosity none the less.
I wasn’t able to get up on the rig to shoot, as the Norwegians were office guys, but the story is certainly interesting and worth reading. Check out the NY Times article here. I look forward to following the development of shale gas extraction in the coming months and years.
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