The Frackers: Uncovering the Incredible Story of the New Billionaire Wildcatters

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United States on Feb 28, 2024

Walter Potter: Great book if you're interested in the history of oil and gas discovery in shale. Really interesting that they were small companies and a lot of them were from working families. It was also interesting how they struggled through the tough times and finance the debt that they had from buying land for drilling. It was important book because it helped the USA increase their oil and gas production.

United States on Jan 03, 2024

axe: Sehr lesenswert über Aufstieg und Fall und erneuten Aufstieg der Unternehmer die Öl und Gas suchen fanden. Die Entbehrungen und das Risiko der Suche

Germany on May 01, 2022

N: Wonderful read on the new development within American oil and gas industry. It talks about various struggles and events building to the birth of shale oil and gas. It is very well written and I thoroughly enjoyed the book.

India on Jan 17, 2019

the loz: Easy to read introduction into the history of fracking! Totally apolitical!
Excellent!

Australia on Jun 23, 2018

Gord Addison: Excellent book on the history of one of the most important energy stories of our time. Readable, and Zuckerman does a great job of highlighting the personalities involved, and the struggles they had to overcome.

Canada on Dec 05, 2017

Alex: Comme le précédent livre de Gregory Zuckerman, The Greatest Trade Ever, ce livre est excellent. C'est une histoire des compagnies, mais surtout des hommes, qui depuis plusieurs dizaines d'années préparent la révolution énergétique qu'on vit maintenant. Cheniere, Continental, Chesapeake, Devon, XTO - on retrouve tous les noms auxquels nous sommes devenus habitués, ainsi que les histoires humaines derrière.
Livre à recommander pour toute personne qui s'intéresse à cette industrie ou à l'énergie plus généralement.

France on Feb 01, 2016

Hill Country Bob: This is the biggest story in energy for decades. It is a great benefit to the world in making more and cheaper natural gas and petroleum available to the world.

Interesting story of the Americans in the oil and gas industry who Have changes the business in America, and the world.

I found this book interesting and entertaining on several levels. Most importantly, it is about men who are innovative, intelligent, and willing to risk all of their resources on an idea. Interesting information about how the private part of the Americas gas and oil industry operate, and make the intelligent, hardworking and fortunate rich.

In America, the owner of the land owns the subsurface rights to whatever is t here. Most of the rest of the world is different and the subsurface rights belong to the state. Thus, any oil company, including small wildcatters, could get into the business by locating land where they believed there was commercially profitable amounts of ail and / or natural gas. A drill lease was signed with the land owner, accompanied with an up front payment, giving the driller the rights to drill on the property for a fixed period of time. If he did not drill, the...

United States on Dec 20, 2013

Pendejo Grande: Because I live in an oilfield community and because I don't rely on the oilfield to put food on the table, I found this book extremely interesting. I'm an educator who has at times supplemented my income by working summers and weekends in the oilfield. Since I had to have a Commercial Drivers Licence to drive a bus as a part of my real job, it wasn't much of a stretch to get a tractor/trailer and tanker endorsement and haul water into and out of the oilfield. I've even hauled water to frac jobs. I've hauled water away from frac jobs. Thankfully I wasn't around much during frac jobs as they are incredibly noisy. This gives me a little different perspective maybe than the avg reader.

I've heard of Chesapeake and Sandridge. Actually know some people who work for them. It was incredibly interesting to learn how those two companies came in to being. Judging from the book I'd say that Awbrey McClendon and Tom Ward are borderline crooked, but my limited experience in the oilfield tells me that that's pretty normal behavior at the top of the ladder. There couldn't be as many crooked people at the bottom of the ladder if it didn't get a little crooked as you went up. I've heard of...

United States on Dec 02, 2013