Posted on January 20, 2026
Bakken, Fracking, Horizontal Drilling, Natural Gas, Natural Gas, Permian, Pipeline, Pipelines

In a 2017 Forbes article, writer Robert Rapier escorted the magazine’s audience on a fascinating tour of “How the Shale Boom Turned the World Upside Down”. If you recall, the nation’s oil and gas production had long ago peaked with conventional drilling and by 2005, we were in a full-blown energy crisis highly dependent on Venezuela and Saudi Arabia oil imports. And natural gas? Well, the only solution here with certainty according to one energy investor was “to pray.” ...

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Posted on November 18, 2025
Anadarko Basin, Bakken, Company Spotlight, Crude Oil, Fracking, Horizontal Drilling, International, Joint Ventures, Mergers & Acquisitions, Natural Gas, Permian, Powder River Basin

The name of the book is Game Changer: Our Fifty-Year Mission to Secure America’s Energy Independence. The author, a rags-to-riches phenom and pioneer of the shale revolution who’s made an art out of unlocking tight rock with a combination of fracking and horizontal drilling. ...

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Posted on July 10, 2024
Anadarko Basin, Bakken, Company Spotlight, Crude Oil, Fracking, Horizontal Drilling, Mergers & Acquisitions, Permian

If there’s a soul alive in the shale business who hasn’t heard of Harold Hamm, well, God bless your heart. The CEO of Okla. City-based Continental Resources is not only legend among American wildcatters who bet big and won big, he could also well be the GOAT of modern times....

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