Never bet against America’s oil and natural gas engineers.  About two decades ago, these engineers delivered the shale oil and natural gas revolution.

After many years of trying to figure out how to extract the oil and natural gas trapped in shale rock formations, America’s petroleum engineers developed horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing, commonly called fracking. Water laced with sand was injected into the shale deposits. This technology unlocked billions of barrels of crude oil previously trapped deep underground in the shale oil deposits of America’s Permian Basin, located in Western Texas and Eastern New Mexico.