NORTH AMERICA: Technology is driving new gas, oil boom
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- Technological breakthrough
- Initial oil and gas plays
- Fracturing technology background
- Rapid, incremental improvement
- Required fluid
- Evolving fracturing techniques
- Uncemented, open hole, single stage
- Cemented liner with limited entry
- Cemented liner, multi-stage entry
- Uncemented, open hole, multi-stage entry
- Cost and logistical challenges
- Political, public concerns
- US political and popular opposition
- Quebec moratorium
- Outlook
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