Shale cowboys: fracking under Trump - Docu - 2017
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Length: 47min 5sec (2825 seconds)
Published: Sun Jun 25 2017
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Some serious causation ≠ correlation problems with the assumption that shale cut the price of oil in half. Of the 80.6 mil barrels of oil produced in 2016 about 4.25 were U.S. shale. That 5% is not responsible for Oil crashing. Although it is significant for the U.S. and has geopolitical ramifications.
It is also wrong to imply that OPEC is functional or can/did target shale with slashing prices. OPEC has been broken since the 1980's when SA cuts were undermined by others nations. As many are aware cartels have a problem with enforcement/motivation and OPEC is no exception. They represent less than half of production (where shale is a factor in mitigating) and don't have the ability to truly coordinate. Sometimes where its an extreme situation (1998/2008) they can try to work together but essentially OPEC is a highly dysfunctional organization that should not be looked at as the source or means of policy. When they attempt anything it descends into backstabbing as the nations (rightly) don't trust each other.
The extremely high oil prices were because of economic and geopolitical factors that price/supply eventually accommodated or were resolved.
Question - are countries like China and Russia also pursuing fracking for their own energy needs (internal consumption, export)?
Having your own energy sources is an important weapon in the world economy. Since 2013, the United States has made important foes of fossil-rich opponents like Saudi Arabia important in extracting shale gas and shale oil from its own soil. The price for a barrel of crude oil fell from 100 to less than $50. The Texan shale producers who survived this price tag are the new heroes of the United States. Under president Donald Trump, the shale cowboys are striving to help Europe to become independent. On research in Trumpland.
Original title: Schaliecowboys Schale stone was considered worthless by the oil and gas industry in the past. They passed through on their way to expensive oil and gas that lay deeper. Until a small Texan gas company found a way in the late 1990's to win gas from hard-shelled rock. By making deep boreholes in the stone layers of the soil and injecting a large amount of water and chemicals under high pressure, shale gas and shale oil are won. With this method, later known as fracking, the energy market changed forever.
In the meantime, one third of gas and oil production in the United States is a shale.And the bid consumer of energy is not only content to be independent, the country is now even an exporter of energy. OPEC, the organization of (other) oil exporting countries, keeps the oil price on the world market as low as possible, to make American production worthless. But for the moment, the oil countries do not get the shale cowboys on their knees.
How does this controversial innovation put the world of energy upside down? Because this new offer of cheap energy really gives us more time to bridge the transition to a sustainable world of solar and wind energy. A few years ago, all experts and analysts went out of the Peak Oil Theory. Namely, the fossil reserves in the world were running out. The shale revolution turned this theory into old dirt in just a few years. Fracking technology opens a whole new reservoir of fossil fuels.
The election of President Trump was greeted in Texas with joy and also seen as a recognition for what the shale revolution is going to be. And the future is even more rosy: recent geological research showed that hundreds of billions of dollars of shale oil are still in the so-called Wolf Camp Shale Field in West Texas. Who are the people behind this shale revolution? A portrait of the pioneers and the new Shale millionaires in Texas.
Daniel Yergin (energy specialist and author of The Prize and The Quest), Dan Steward, Kent Bowker and Nick Steinsberger (Shale Gas Revolution Geologists and Pioneers), Matt Miller (Dallas Gray Gray Energy Partners), Doug Shanda (Head of Operations Cheniere Energy in Port Arthur), Tommy Taylor (Director of Fasken Oil & Ranch from Midland Texas).
Only really the last 1/4th of the documentary attacks the serious international implications