Permian Basin Fracked Shale Oil Wells
Introduction
The shale drilling and fracking revolution has had a profound impact on US daily production and US energy imports and exports; it has also impacted global oil prices and may even have contributed to a complete re-thinking of American foreign policy and the balance of power in the Middle East. President Trump has suggested that since US dependence on foreign supplies of oil has essentially disappeared due to our tremendously surging domestic oil production, and since the American people are exhausted by many years of war in