shale

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Following the shale boom, many people thought that the U.S. no longer needed a SPR at all, said Robert McNally, president at Rapidan Energy Group and a former energy adviser to President George W. Bush.

From MarketWatch • May 28, 2026

The U.S. unlocked oil previously trapped in shale rock, using technology not entirely new but applied in a much larger scale at that time.

From MarketWatch • May 28, 2026

Until 2020, big economic shocks tended to push inflation lower: China’s entry into the World Trade Organization, the U.S. mortgage crisis, the euro crisis, the shale oil revolution, the initial wave of Covid-19.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 21, 2026

But a tepid response from American energy producers, as well as technological advances in drilling, suggest the go-go days of the shale boom creating armies of high-paying jobs are over.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 17, 2026

Five hundred feet above the South Col, where the steep shale gave way to a gender slope of snow, Namba’s oxygen ran out, and the diminutive Japanese woman sat down, refusing to move.

From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer