Shale cowboys: fracking under Trump | VPRO Documentary | 2017

Having your own energy sources is an important weapon in the world economy. Since 2013, the United States has made important foes of fossil-rich opponents like Saudi Arabia important in extracting shale gas and shale oil from its own soil. The price for a barrel of crude oil fell from 100 to less than $50. The Texan shale producers who survived this price tag are the new heroes of the United States. Under president Donald Trump, the shale cowboys are striving to help Europe to become independent. On research in Trumpland.
Original title: Schaliecowboys
Schale stone was considered worthless by the oil and gas industry in the past. They passed through on their way to expensive oil and gas that lay deeper. Until a small Texan gas company found a way in the late 1990's to win gas from hard-shelled rock. By making deep boreholes in the stone layers of the soil and injecting a large amount of water and chemicals under high pressure, shale gas and shale oil are won. With this method, later known as fracking, the energy market changed forever.
In the meantime, one third of gas and oil production in the United States is a shale.And the bid consumer of energy is not only content to be independent, the country is now even an exporter of energy. OPEC, the organization of (other) oil exporting countries, keeps the oil price on the world market as low as possible, to make American production worthless. But for the moment, the oil countries do not get the shale cowboys on their knees.
How does this controversial innovation put the world of energy upside down? Because this new offer of cheap energy really gives us more time to bridge the transition to a sustainable world of solar and wind energy. A few years ago, all experts and analysts went out of the Peak Oil Theory. Namely, the fossil reserves in the world were running out. The shale revolution turned this theory into old dirt in just a few years. Fracking technology opens a whole new reservoir of fossil fuels.
The election of President Trump was greeted in Texas with joy and also seen as a recognition for what the shale revolution is going to be. And the future is even more rosy: recent geological research showed that hundreds of billions of dollars of shale oil are still in the so-called Wolf Camp Shale Field in West Texas. Who are the people behind this shale revolution? A portrait of the pioneers and the new Shale millionaires in Texas.
Daniel Yergin (energy specialist and author of The Prize and The Quest), Dan Steward, Kent Bowker and Nick Steinsberger (Shale Gas Revolution Geologists and Pioneers), Matt Miller (Dallas Gray Gray Energy Partners), Doug Shanda (Head of Operations Cheniere Energy in Port Arthur), Tommy Taylor (Director of Fasken Oil & Ranch from Midland Texas).
Originally broadcasted by VPRO in 2017.
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  • @vprodocumentary
    @vprodocumentary4 жыл бұрын

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  • @dadoVRC
    @dadoVRC5 жыл бұрын

    Maybe in 30/40 years people in US have understood that water, air and soil quality are'nt negotiable with money.

  • @maxpower1337
    @maxpower13375 жыл бұрын

    Fracking saved the American economy imo

  • @CycleGirl-77
    @CycleGirl-775 жыл бұрын

    I think they used "Trump" in the title just to get more attention.

  • @markbrown4110
    @markbrown41105 жыл бұрын

    Wanted to add my 2 cents as a Canadian and a fair amount of experience in "the patch". I started watching this video with a great amount of trepidation...expecting just another diatribe on the horrors of carbon based fuels. I was pleasantly surprised, a fact based production showing both sides of the issues and honest attempt to describe the history of the development of "tight" gas and "tight" oil in Texas as well as here in Alberta. Just a note to the producers, fracking has been used in North America since the late 1960's. Its been improved, certainly, but it is not a new technique. A hearty thank you to the producers, I learned a lot from this show and thank you especially for your balanced approach and fair treatment of this important issue today.

  • @libertysprings2244
    @libertysprings22445 жыл бұрын

    I am a pro-fracking environmentalist, believe it or not. I am proud of these guys for giving us the energy independence we so much wanted, to get us out of the constant wars in the middle east. Even if fracking ends up being a net loss of investment dollars in the long run, to me it's still worth it compared to the wars (high cost in dollars AND lives) for middle east oil. This gives us the time we needed to continue our transition to renewables without continuing to send our young men overseas to fight for control of oil. Great job guys!!

  • @mikerodgers7620

    @mikerodgers7620

    5 жыл бұрын

    Good. 😉

  • @Joh2n

    @Joh2n

    5 жыл бұрын

    The wars will only be delayed one or two years. I guess the next war will be with Russia, We've warred on everyone else. That one will be a doozie.

  • @foxbodyblues6709

    @foxbodyblues6709

    5 жыл бұрын

    One of the most sensible and patriotic statements i have ever seen

  • @mackdye9070

    @mackdye9070

    5 жыл бұрын

    We are still at war in the middle east trying to secure oil. lol It will never stop regardless of how much oil we have stateside.

  • @foxbodyblues6709

    @foxbodyblues6709

    5 жыл бұрын

    Finally a common sense environmentalist!!!

  • @TheUnatuber
    @TheUnatuber4 жыл бұрын

    Dollar $igns in their eyes, they simply cannot see what they are doing.

  • @workingcountry1776
    @workingcountry17765 жыл бұрын

    This is the 1st documentary on the subject that I've watched that is truly unbiased. Thank you! I'm not for or against it yet. Just gathering information

  • @vprodocumentary

    @vprodocumentary

    5 жыл бұрын

    Hello! This is exactly what the maker of this documentary intended to do. Thank you for noticing.

  • @LifeX2Find

    @LifeX2Find

    4 жыл бұрын

    Country Boy .. Oh yeah, take a. LOOK AT THIS ONE, then tell me how unbiased these left-winger's are. kzread.info/dash/bejne/n6Gt1MSEcr2cg7g.html

  • @LifeX2Find

    @LifeX2Find

    4 жыл бұрын

    vpro documentary .. You're a DUMMY!!

  • @BiggRude02

    @BiggRude02

    4 жыл бұрын

    @ken shamrock fracking has been going on before Obama was born?

  • @rickh9507
    @rickh95075 жыл бұрын

    We been fracking in cali since 2006 way before trump

  • @mikestone234

    @mikestone234

    4 жыл бұрын

    @Guy Baldwin lol! California is full of Cocaine....you get it from your politicians.

  • @thaddeuscarpenter1580

    @thaddeuscarpenter1580

    4 жыл бұрын

    @Stephen Brawner You mean the ones he introduced in 2015??? And the ones the Federal Judge stated he had no power to restrict on public lands in 2016???

  • @elchucotown9157

    @elchucotown9157

    4 жыл бұрын

    Stephen Brawner jajajaja thanking trump for it hell nah the only one you should be thanking is George W. Bush

  • @TechieTard

    @TechieTard

    4 жыл бұрын

    Blessed be the ever increasing earthquakes that develop close to those fracking zones! Shifting mantle, volcano's, pay no attention to that!

  • @TechieTard

    @TechieTard

    4 жыл бұрын

    Blessed be the ever increasing earthquakes that develop close to those fracking zones! Shifting mantle, volcano's, pay no attention to that!

  • @buf7ord
    @buf7ord5 жыл бұрын

    “US will be less interested in the Middle East.” Less Middle East wars... less foreign interference in our affairs.

  • @ostapbendervan7874

    @ostapbendervan7874

    4 жыл бұрын

    keep DREAMING BILLIONS invested OVERSEAS no way those investments dry up.more like American interference in others affairs. name me one against America.never have enough for world compensation

  • @samthegreekboy6812

    @samthegreekboy6812

    4 жыл бұрын

    @Eliot Thexton Sure it has, the US is the world's largest energy producer, now that we don't need them, they can defend themselves or pay us when we have to defend them. That is what Trump is doing now.

  • @TechieTard

    @TechieTard

    4 жыл бұрын

    What fkn planet do you live on!? Now more than ever will they have to meddle in it. They have to overthrow all the oil producers of the world to control the supply in order to keep the value of the dollar up.

  • @TechieTard

    @TechieTard

    4 жыл бұрын

    What fkn planet do you live on!? Now more than ever will they have to meddle in it. They have to overthrow all the oil producers of the world to control the supply in order to keep the value of the dollar up.

  • @TechieTard

    @TechieTard

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@samthegreekboy6812 You effin moron! They never needed defending, us overthrowing legitimate governments in the middle east by arming religious fanatics caused the strife you see today! They never needed the US, the US needed them to sell the oil in dollars! You idiots talk out of your @s$ and have no idea on how the world actually works!

  • @grospipo20
    @grospipo204 жыл бұрын

    I don’t care what your ideology is (Republicans, Democrats, environmentalist, pro business, etc) ... You have got to tip your hats off to these guys! The level of ingenuity that came to solve this problem is impressive and their role in the US recovery from the financial crisis 2008 recovery will probably never be knowns by the average Americans.

  • @codyhusbands1165
    @codyhusbands11655 жыл бұрын

    I'm not a tree hugger but I live in Ohio and an oil company pumps water out of the river I grew up playing in and are drilling all around my area I've witnessed trucks pull into the lot and dump water onto the ground beside the river no-one will ever convince me that recklessness isn't going to forever taint the water tables around the U.S. once the water supply is tainted it's forever done I don't see how their allowed to just dump water like that

  • @chloehennessey6813
    @chloehennessey68135 жыл бұрын

    Thank you for fracking on my parents ranch. With the wells you have drilled and the land you’ve leased will ensure that me nor my kids will ever have to work a day in our lives.

  • @korymanuel9666

    @korymanuel9666

    5 жыл бұрын

    Wow that must be nice to have

  • @pazil360

    @pazil360

    5 жыл бұрын

    True caucasoid

  • @kellypenrod2979

    @kellypenrod2979

    4 жыл бұрын

    Your very welcome young lady!!

  • @PInk77W1

    @PInk77W1

    4 жыл бұрын

    Awesome story !!!!!

  • @ostapbendervan7874

    @ostapbendervan7874

    4 жыл бұрын

    0.00001% is you

  • @chaolee3605
    @chaolee36055 жыл бұрын

    You’ll never see China or India protesting oil in any form

  • @kyleroenner6887

    @kyleroenner6887

    4 жыл бұрын

    Liza Tanzawa that’s completely bullshit! You obviously never been in Texas and Oklahoma and see what the oil and gas field does for the small guys

  • @mtube620

    @mtube620

    4 жыл бұрын

    @Liza Tanzawa no you silly, US is buying canadian oil, very cheap, then sell it to the world

  • @austinturner5818

    @austinturner5818

    4 жыл бұрын

    Peter Ruffu I don’t understand why people like you love to spread Out right and blatant lies there are countless jobs paying very well people making six-figure salary’s who were making $30-$40,000 before they started working in the oil fields

  • @donettatrump2025

    @donettatrump2025

    4 жыл бұрын

    @Harry Clams China is the world leader for renewable energy production. This was an informative echo chamber. Wait until the "heartland's condo - Google - "38th parallel structures" America is doomed. China will own the dollar in the next decade.

  • @RoyalCrown-kp2jr

    @RoyalCrown-kp2jr

    4 жыл бұрын

    Austin Turner I think he was being sarcastic

  • @hmc2s
    @hmc2s5 жыл бұрын

    The Wright Brothers of fracking.

  • @vf12497439
    @vf124974395 жыл бұрын

    There's a lot more oil in the US than in Texas, Oklahoma, California, Colorado, north Dakota, Pennsylvania... huge amounts under other states.

  • @joycecham2804

    @joycecham2804

    5 жыл бұрын

    Hey there , how are you

  • @josephsmith6777

    @josephsmith6777

    4 жыл бұрын

    We are actually amajor exporter now more so in chemicals and lgn but plenty of crude its more about our allies not having to buy from russia or the midle east but we cant supply oil to all our friends

  • @LaRoucheisright

    @LaRoucheisright

    4 жыл бұрын

    We wouldn't need so much oil if we hadn't listen to the environmentalist imbeciles who said nuclear energy was bad.

  • @FixNewsPlease

    @FixNewsPlease

    4 жыл бұрын

    One giant sinkhole.

  • @michaelheery6303

    @michaelheery6303

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@josephsmith6777 bomb others.

  • @angiejeffrey3508
    @angiejeffrey35085 жыл бұрын

    Total energy independence and not sending money to our enemies. Jobs. Money. Win win

  • @safir2241

    @safir2241

    4 жыл бұрын

    Poisoning water supplies, killing off fauna & flora, perpetuating the fossil fuel industry, ect. Lose lose.

  • @mikestone234

    @mikestone234

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@safir2241 no, not quite. Oil companies work with scientists on technology to clean up emissions to amazing levels. Those of us in the oil business love mother earth too. Before we knew what damage s that improper use of oil could do, we thought it was amazing technology. Its one of the ways we defeated Hitler. Sir, you need more education....practical education.

  • @andrewmcginnis1190
    @andrewmcginnis11905 жыл бұрын

    "Conversations with Petroleum Executives and Engineers about the Future of Energy and International Politics" would be a better title. Very interesting documentary.

  • @silverfox5507
    @silverfox55075 жыл бұрын

    Nobody mentions Thorium for energy . A material in abundance around the world .

  • @markadams7597
    @markadams75974 жыл бұрын

    "Economics wins", smart guy...

  • @augustreil

    @augustreil

    4 жыл бұрын

    @Liza Tanzawa, You just don't get it do you ?

  • @raulrivera5009

    @raulrivera5009

    4 жыл бұрын

    In the future the water will cost more than oil because they are going to contaminate all the clean water.

  • @scarter176
    @scarter1764 жыл бұрын

    We all thought George was crazy in the early eighties when Mitchell was doing this ! We thought they were avoiding taxes LOL!

  • @rogeronslow1498
    @rogeronslow14985 жыл бұрын

    Decades and decades of low cost gas and oil in all shales worldwide. Amazing!

  • @joycecham2804

    @joycecham2804

    5 жыл бұрын

    Hi how are you

  • @grantperkins368

    @grantperkins368

    4 жыл бұрын

    Decades!! Holyshit, really? Decades, wow that's tens of years!!!... what do U think are the chances that by then we have figured out a way to avoid using the stuff ?

  • @LifeX2Find

    @LifeX2Find

    4 жыл бұрын

    Grant Perkins .. It's not only a few decades. America now has enough "KNOWN RESERVES" that we can successfully drill to last us over 100 YEARS, easy!! That's a FACT!!

  • @LifeX2Find

    @LifeX2Find

    4 жыл бұрын

    Grant Perkins .. BTW, 'YOU' can easily 'avoid using the stuff~!' Just don't drive anything (including, a bicycle, since its made out of plastic) or heat your home, water for a hot shower or purchase any amenities made out of plastic!! Bet you won't do it, because you just have a BIG MOUTH, but know nothing!!

  • @LifeX2Find

    @LifeX2Find

    4 жыл бұрын

    kanana ristobal ..Yeah, will that big fat liar has made millions off of his LIES!! Google to see how GREEN his multi-million dollar homes are, NOT!!

  • @nancyaberg7111
    @nancyaberg71114 жыл бұрын

    Thanks for the documentary on fracking. Been benefitting from it and not really knowing the details until your video.

  • @mauroreyes8418
    @mauroreyes84184 жыл бұрын

    i remember sitting in gas lines during the embargo. flood the market and break OPEC's back

  • @marcranhay29

    @marcranhay29

    4 жыл бұрын

    Mauro Reyes libyards don’t get it

  • @tomstdenis

    @tomstdenis

    4 жыл бұрын

    OPEC has far more oil than America does.... good luck with that.

  • @LaRoucheisright

    @LaRoucheisright

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@tomstdenis Maybe he is talking to President Putin when he says to break OPEC's back. That would make sense.

  • @Frenchkisssss

    @Frenchkisssss

    4 жыл бұрын

    Now they are all going bankrupt how ironic is that

  • @socrattt

    @socrattt

    4 жыл бұрын

    You are overestimating America's leverage. Keep pretending, though.

  • @richardziegler3620
    @richardziegler36205 жыл бұрын

    try plugging your furnace into a frozen windmill, in the middle of a blizzard

  • @slopat2503

    @slopat2503

    5 жыл бұрын

    So ignorant.

  • @kinkaidglade2388

    @kinkaidglade2388

    5 жыл бұрын

    Hahaha

  • @sloughdog6735

    @sloughdog6735

    5 жыл бұрын

    Slopat you are ignorant to believe in wind power. people in MN think they are buying green energy, when in fact, electrical energy, in any form, once it hits the grid cannot be differentiated. meaning, the grid cannot differentiate between wind power or coal fired power. And these suckers think they are paying big bucks for wind energy, moronic. Also, it takes a shitload of coal fire to start up those wind towers

  • @bradhaaf4749

    @bradhaaf4749

    4 жыл бұрын

    What furnace, work smarter not harder duh kzread.info/dash/bejne/d3Wqu5eDlbDgado.html

  • @theandrigo1

    @theandrigo1

    4 жыл бұрын

    Pepper Beckett actually, it depends on the quality and size of the windmill, David Hughes (a vial business) owner even said that a windmill in the right location could pay back the energy that went into it in under 3 years

  • @leonng9926
    @leonng99265 жыл бұрын

    You know the drill. God bless America!

  • @daveberswick5372

    @daveberswick5372

    5 жыл бұрын

    you need it \. fracking is ruining your ground water

  • @TomTom-xp2jb
    @TomTom-xp2jb4 жыл бұрын

    I'd like to see more on water quality after fracking. I'm concerned that we aren't getting the facts on this. Thanx for an educational and balanced program!!!

  • @llibressal

    @llibressal

    4 жыл бұрын

    I can tell you that in my case (part owner of 7 ng wells) thre ground water was tested both before and after the fracking process. No change. The water table is from 75' to 140' below the surface. The fracking process was happening at 10,000' below the surface. By law all of the data has to be monitored and directly submitted to the state controlling authority. In my case it's the Arkansas Oil n Gas Commission. Go to the website. Its all open, free and transparent for you to search through if you really care about the truth of the matter.

  • @GodGunsGutsandNRA

    @GodGunsGutsandNRA

    4 жыл бұрын

    Flint Michigan’s water was poisoning their citizens, and it wasn’t due to fracking. So “oil” is NOT the only EVIL in this country!!!

  • @LouSaydus
    @LouSaydus5 жыл бұрын

    I really like this lady's voice.

  • @sickolelady2001
    @sickolelady20014 жыл бұрын

    Thank u VPRO for your informative videos!🌹👵🏻💰😄😁🌹❤️

  • @MrHarpette
    @MrHarpette5 жыл бұрын

    This documentary mixes oil and natural gas extraction in the same fracking bag; i'm curious about the proportions of each. Also, how did they use to extract natural gas prior to the fracking method?

  • @rexbentley8332
    @rexbentley83324 жыл бұрын

    What actually is "renewable" about renewable energy? Nothing, it's just a word to make somebody somewhere feel all warm and fuzzy. Just like "rain forest", used to be a jungle. But it's hard to get all emotional and caring about a jungle where snakes and spiders and all manner of creepy crawly things call home. But, call it a "rain forest", and oh, it sounds so comfortable and nice and worth saving.

  • @microphonixvirtualstudio1634
    @microphonixvirtualstudio16345 жыл бұрын

    If you don't like fracking stop buying oil, natural gas or electricity.

  • @ravenfeather7087

    @ravenfeather7087

    5 жыл бұрын

    Soon. The first 500 mile range electric powered pickup just came on the market. These fat old money hungry oil men are about to become food for worms and the world won't miss them. It's time to move on (progress).

  • @bigdave6331

    @bigdave6331

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@ravenfeather7087 false. Moving on is getting better technology to get the oil and gas out of the ground.

  • @frankodonnell4073

    @frankodonnell4073

    5 жыл бұрын

    MICROMOUTH //OR YOU COULD GO WIND @ SOLAR /DID YOU EVEN THINK OF THAT ?

  • @pgood7266

    @pgood7266

    5 жыл бұрын

    Raven Feather hey guess where the electricity comes from to power electric cars.........

  • @probablynotabigtoe9407

    @probablynotabigtoe9407

    5 жыл бұрын

    Bloody ignorant aren’t you

  • @pierdoro1983
    @pierdoro19834 жыл бұрын

    this video is a spot for the fracking industry....i thought it was a documentary...

  • @gmckenzie175
    @gmckenzie1754 жыл бұрын

    Those who have once again get more and more. How many yaghts can you ski behind? Great find but don't forget about those that will never smile like you. Greed. Peace

  • @marcellaobdrzalek8435
    @marcellaobdrzalek84354 жыл бұрын

    "Where ever there is oil, there are Americans" opening line from "Wages of Fear" 1953 film, dir. Henri-Georges Clouzot

  • @buckeye200175
    @buckeye2001755 жыл бұрын

    Out of college in 1973 , my friend was a geologist and they were fracking wells in northeast Ohio back then

  • @carolemiller4007
    @carolemiller40074 жыл бұрын

    HALLELUIA! Energy independence has been prophesied!Thank you Jesus! Bless and protect!

  • @LifeX2Find

    @LifeX2Find

    4 жыл бұрын

    America has enough retrievable OIL to last us at least another 100 years!!

  • @ColonelFredPuntridge

    @ColonelFredPuntridge

    4 жыл бұрын

    How about thanking the scientists and the engineers? They did it, not Jesus. And not Donald Trump. The fracking industry grew from producing less than 10% of USA's domestic energy in 2008 to producing more than half of USA's energy in 2016. BEFORE Trump took office, mostly before he ran. He had nothing to do with it.

  • @terrywaltman2520

    @terrywaltman2520

    4 жыл бұрын

    God will destroy those who destroy the earth.

  • @angusmac2037
    @angusmac20374 жыл бұрын

    These documentaries are awesome...keep 'em coming.

  • @MustangsTrainsMowers
    @MustangsTrainsMowers5 жыл бұрын

    There was drilling in North Dakota in the 80’s, but they couldn’t get much out so they stopped. They returned in the 2000’s. I’ve talked to a guy who was making $80,000 a year working drilling rigs with no training needed. He finally couldn’t take being away from his family here near St.Paul and quit, with a nice chunk of money in his checking account.

  • @tibsyy895
    @tibsyy8955 жыл бұрын

    There is an episode on FullyCharged where the host talks a bout how FRACKING is a complete SCAM and it is unprofitable for most of the companies and they collected a massive amount of debt doing so. Any comments? If its true, energy prices will skyrocket in the future!

  • @SimonZimmermann82
    @SimonZimmermann824 жыл бұрын

    I am wondering when this documentary turns into vilifying fossil fuels...

  • @SimonZimmermann82

    @SimonZimmermann82

    4 жыл бұрын

    aaaand Minute 35 is where I have better things to do. Love the US all the way from Germany!

  • @LifeX2Find

    @LifeX2Find

    4 жыл бұрын

    That's their intent .. LOOK at this kzread.info/dash/bejne/n6Gt1MSEcr2cg7g.html

  • @mikestone234

    @mikestone234

    4 жыл бұрын

    @buford t. justice no, they won't. They dont know that burning wood makes more pollution than, than a modern car does.(1995- now)

  • @cassandraneylor6473

    @cassandraneylor6473

    4 жыл бұрын

    it doesn't have to negatively affect the environment to be an ugly ass practice...i think everyone involved is contributing to seeeerious kinds of evil. it's always just another money game...

  • @marcranhay29

    @marcranhay29

    4 жыл бұрын

    Simon Zimmermann and they should cave man

  • @markadams7597
    @markadams75975 жыл бұрын

    It's a great many more that "a few men" in Texas. It's an entire industry (with 100,000s of people).

  • @joycecham2804

    @joycecham2804

    5 жыл бұрын

    Hi Mark

  • @RisokMotorsport

    @RisokMotorsport

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@joycecham2804 hi Joyce

  • @PInk77W1

    @PInk77W1

    4 жыл бұрын

    100,000s of people didn’t start it.

  • @marcranhay29

    @marcranhay29

    4 жыл бұрын

    Mark Adams yay

  • @Marine_Ret
    @Marine_Ret4 жыл бұрын

    Waiting for someone in this documentary to say “Fracking is racist”

  • @LifeX2Find

    @LifeX2Find

    4 жыл бұрын

    Come back often ~ it's on the 'tip of their tongue~!'

  • @lifeinthefastlane8242

    @lifeinthefastlane8242

    4 жыл бұрын

    😂

  • @MustangsTrainsMowers
    @MustangsTrainsMowers4 жыл бұрын

    There was drilling for oil in NW North Dakota in the 80’s. They knew the oil was there but they couldn’t get enough out to justify pumping. With the advancement of fracking they returned in the 2000’s and things panned out.

  • @itruck96
    @itruck964 жыл бұрын

    Everyone needs to listen to interviews with oil expert Art Berman. You're not going to like it.....but at least you won't be lied to again.

  • @PInk77W1

    @PInk77W1

    4 жыл бұрын

    itruck2009 boo hoo

  • @johnfranklin1955
    @johnfranklin19555 жыл бұрын

    An off shoot of the success of fracking is when they increased the size of the Panama Canal the biggest increase in shipping was LNG ships going from the Eastern US to Asia.

  • @mikemalo6336
    @mikemalo63365 жыл бұрын

    At 13:30, notice the salt crust that has accumulated on top of the dirt in that lot where the separator tank is. That crust is evaporated out from the fracking fluid and absolutely does not allow plant life to grow there for a very long time .

  • @hcwoolfgmailcom
    @hcwoolfgmailcom5 жыл бұрын

    This a FRACKING good documentary! Please excuse my language.

  • @jpiscina
    @jpiscina4 жыл бұрын

    great doc

  • @hierholzerd
    @hierholzerd5 жыл бұрын

    we use Fossil Fuels Because It is the MOST Cost Effective! Not Because Of Trump... SMH.... We will Rely only on renewables when It is Cost Effective.

  • @beckwerks6817

    @beckwerks6817

    5 жыл бұрын

    We have a planet covered in water. Water is hydrogen and oxygen. Water is easily broken with a direct current applied to the water the current going though the water causes the h2o to separate into oxygen and hydrogen.... Capture the gasses and use it. How can it be possible that an the bullshit involved with getting oil and refining it can be anywhere even remotely close to being cheaper to produce than hydrogen fuel from the water that covers this planet? Oil and the process of getting it and transporting it and using it, polutes poisons kills and destroys. Hydrogen has ZERO polution! Completely CLEAN and it even turns back into clean water after it's burned.... We have power being made by solar panels, wind generators, hydro electric generators and many many other ways like right from the air like Tesla showed and even right out of the earth itself. So we could easily supply power to hydrogen generator units from any one or more of the various available sources of renewable energy and we could be making clean non polluting fuel 24/7 365 days every year non stop all over this planet... How can OIL possibly be better or cheaper than that? It's not better or cheaper! What it is, is HUMANITY IS BEING RIPPED OFF PROGRAMMED AND CONTROLLED FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE RICH ELITE RULERS AND THEIR GOVERNMENTS THEY HAVE IN PLACE TO RULE US AND ENFORCE THE WILL OF THE ELITE RULERS OF THE WORLD.... WE ARE BEING LIED TO AND BEING RIPPED OFF AND BEING KILLED AND OUR PLANET IS BEING DESTROYED BECAUSE OF GREED! THESE OIL SCUMBAGS IN THIS SHOW ARE SCUMBAGS WHO ARE DESTROYING US AND OUR PLANET SO THEY CAN GET MORE WEALTH FOR THEIR GREEDY SCUM ASSES!!!!

  • @beckwerks6817

    @beckwerks6817

    5 жыл бұрын

    SMH!

  • @harleyme3163

    @harleyme3163

    5 жыл бұрын

    we use oil products because the oil company's have a monopoly on fuel. most cost affective is running on WATER.. or hydrogen . heres why.. hydrogen is explosive.. not just flammable like gas.. and you can make hydrogen on demand from the very alternater on your engine putting out 12 volts at 7 amps.

  • @axelbauron155

    @axelbauron155

    5 жыл бұрын

    The political price of oil is gigantic. Ask every Western leaders how it feels to go and kiss Saudi hairy butts on a regular basis. Ask all the victims of endless wars in the Middle East. The Sun and wind belong to everybody, it's hard to start a war over sunlight.

  • @PARIS8500

    @PARIS8500

    5 жыл бұрын

    @@beckwerks6817 So long as your idea doesn't affect fresh water supply, you present an interesting and compelling narrrative. Are you sharing this info with anyone in Washing ton, D.C. We Americans are [largely] uninformed pragmatists. As much as we villify China's IP violations, we love cheap tech. Do you have the ear of any of the presidential candidates? Have you reached out to Yang? Warren? Sanders? What about Congresswoman AOC?

  • @davegrenier1160
    @davegrenier11605 жыл бұрын

    Actually fracking took off during the Obama administration when he closed a lot of public land to drilling. All fracking is therefore on private land. A few months ago, Obama took credit for the oil boom saying it started on his watch. Although correct, it was fracking on private land that made it happen, despite his best attempt to throttle the industry. And who would have benefited from that? Why that "important foe," Saudi Arabia.

  • @Rainkit

    @Rainkit

    5 жыл бұрын

    ... But Saudi Arabia is our ally.

  • @joycecham2804

    @joycecham2804

    5 жыл бұрын

    Hi

  • @chochochikito
    @chochochikito4 жыл бұрын

    What about fracking now with the shale barril at -37 dlls?

  • @AyouMike
    @AyouMike5 жыл бұрын

    Look up Dismick, Pennsylvania fracking they could light their tap water on FIRE! 🔥

  • @dloui5214
    @dloui52144 жыл бұрын

    to those funny protesters, stop using your cars, motorbikes, buses, even airplanes ! ... unbelieveable

  • @KevinP32270
    @KevinP322705 жыл бұрын

    GREAT GRAVITY!!!! that's amazing.

  • @lashlarue7924
    @lashlarue79245 жыл бұрын

    Brilliant video. Excellent treatment of the subject matter. Very, very well done! Bravo!

  • @davidgaines9853
    @davidgaines98534 жыл бұрын

    Keep on doing a great Job! Freedom!

  • @pauljmeyer1
    @pauljmeyer15 жыл бұрын

    An excellent documentary which gives an understanding of the economics of fossil energy. We've switched from Camels to Lucky Strikes and we're enjoying it more.

  • @lonarbuckle9788
    @lonarbuckle97884 жыл бұрын

    horizonta drilling/fracking is where it all changed, very little vertical/conventional today

  • @Naturenerd1000
    @Naturenerd10005 жыл бұрын

    Having a well produce gas for over 16 years and still going strong is impressive.

  • @fateugly

    @fateugly

    4 жыл бұрын

    with hardly any maintenance. impressive indeed.

  • @LifeX2Find

    @LifeX2Find

    4 жыл бұрын

    There are some that have pumping oil for nearly 60 years!!

  • @artmcpharlin6730

    @artmcpharlin6730

    4 жыл бұрын

    not 16 yrs. dude, maybe 12 months ,assuming it is 6/25/17

  • @thomaselliott573
    @thomaselliott5735 жыл бұрын

    This provides valuable insight into the complex energy economy. People should attempt to avoid emotional reactions to energy sources, no matter what their preferences are. Fracking is not all good, but its benefits have been grossly underestimated.

  • @ostapbendervan7874

    @ostapbendervan7874

    4 жыл бұрын

    so true we here to explore not backwards..but why do Americans in comments think this little field be end game.not even 3% consumption theyall be suprise all the oil for home heating comes from Venezuela..shockingly they dont know .middle east bye bye.not so fast Mexico oil is not the same why you dont see massive pipes.

  • @Jobsterizm
    @Jobsterizm4 жыл бұрын

    Not so good now, when Saudi Arabia, and Russia started a price war in the beginning of March, 2020. The price dropped like crazy! Then the USA started shutting down due too Coronavirus/COVID-19. Then Russia came back to the the table with OPEC to cut production by 10mil. barrels a day. The supply is more then the demand due to Coronavirus world wide. The price was below $20 a barrel yesterday! What’s the break even price for the SHALE COWBOYS NOW?

  • @Jobsterizm

    @Jobsterizm

    4 жыл бұрын

    Oh well oil just hit $-37 a barrel. There giving it away + paying you $37. Done for now!

  • @vernonsanders371
    @vernonsanders3714 жыл бұрын

    Love how they go through process awsome american ingenuity at its finest

  • @rlicon1970
    @rlicon19705 жыл бұрын

    I worked in the Permian basin and I made such good money. I loved it. Until January 2016. That's when oil prices hit rock bottom.

  • @thomasglester7962
    @thomasglester79625 жыл бұрын

    I worked in western Kansas for 12 years oil and gas. I truly loved it. I was a smooth operator. I still know the western half of KS, like the back my hand. I wonder? ME

  • @joycecham2804

    @joycecham2804

    5 жыл бұрын

    Hello how are you

  • @AZAZEL_TK

    @AZAZEL_TK

    4 жыл бұрын

    Lmao Gold Digger ☝

  • @alioskidicuna6395
    @alioskidicuna63955 жыл бұрын

    USA 🇺🇸 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸 #1 in the world in everything.

  • @lllool8404

    @lllool8404

    5 жыл бұрын

    We conquered this great land and turned it into the most prosperous on Earth.

  • @jeepwrangler8753

    @jeepwrangler8753

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@lllool8404 prosperity my ass , the Chinese makes you fuckers shit in your pants

  • @stash.
    @stash.5 жыл бұрын

    Britain's too small to frack, Texas is enormous, you could fit Britain in Texas, just empty desert in Texas I agree with the hippies on this one.

  • @greggmcclelland8430
    @greggmcclelland84305 жыл бұрын

    fantastic documentary!

  • @vprodocumentary

    @vprodocumentary

    5 жыл бұрын

    Thank you Gregg. Did you watch other documentaries form our channel. For example this one: kzread.info/dash/bejne/iWGCm4-gj6zgcbw.html about Boyan Slat and his project for cleaning up the ocean.

  • @matthewfranco7644
    @matthewfranco76444 жыл бұрын

    I'm a Landman in West Virginia and I do contact work for O&G companies. There is so much money in fracking. Land owners, Landman, Pipeline workers, Drill Rig workers, Equipment Operators, benefit from this directly. This creates jobs, lowers Natural Gas costs and allows many to support their families. God Bless America & God Bless Capitalism!!! LoL, fracking has been around long before President Trump.

  • @iguanapete3809
    @iguanapete38095 жыл бұрын

    I cant believe texas has any oil left. 65 years ago when I was 8 y/o my great uncle was rich from texas oil. Had a house on a bayou were we couldn't see the neighbors from the window. A reguler J.R. Ewing.

  • @PInk77W1

    @PInk77W1

    4 жыл бұрын

    5D SPIRITUAL CONSCIOUSNESS LoL. No one has ever predicted the end before. LoL.

  • @elchucotown9157

    @elchucotown9157

    4 жыл бұрын

    New land in Texas we have been drilling so we are still good

  • @DiegottlosenCharmeure
    @DiegottlosenCharmeure5 жыл бұрын

    the sun shot in the end was great!

  • @breeze787
    @breeze7874 жыл бұрын

    How much water is used in a fracking operation?

  • @thompsonappliance3078
    @thompsonappliance30785 жыл бұрын

    Let me guess. The seceret location for the rocks are at TCU?

  • @Roywalton83
    @Roywalton835 жыл бұрын

    Anyone know a way I could find out doing this in NC ...

  • @gerardolozadluna4149
    @gerardolozadluna41494 жыл бұрын

    America is not addicted to oil we are

  • @willispeek3846
    @willispeek38464 жыл бұрын

    Natural gas-fired power plants have done more to reduce CO2 emissions than any other program for CO2 emission reduction. Natural gas is 80% hydrogen and is the feedstock for most hydrogen production.

  • @chelu4u
    @chelu4u5 жыл бұрын

    They're actually afraid of going broke not on becoming increasingly dependent on foreign oil.

  • @bradhaaf4749

    @bradhaaf4749

    4 жыл бұрын

    Hard to pay back $22.03 trillion in debt lol Beyond broke

  • @deweyself4508
    @deweyself45084 жыл бұрын

    that's what u call Texas tea.frak up boys..

  • @Swr88
    @Swr885 жыл бұрын

    That was a fascinating watch. Nice to have a more rational, apolitical perspective. I appreciate how some of the commenters within the industry are believers in renewable energy. Not everyone is an evil puppet.

  • @JodySwaney
    @JodySwaney5 жыл бұрын

    I like Tommy Taylor. He's great at explaining things.

  • @georgemck5709
    @georgemck57095 жыл бұрын

    My son worked all over the world got lots of oil .Was to go. to Vietnam But China said no so he went to Oklahoma and in 3 years, got the US 36 years of natural gas fracking

  • @starlite528
    @starlite5285 жыл бұрын

    Music from Akhnaten, by Philip Glass.

  • @MrBiggreedy
    @MrBiggreedy5 жыл бұрын

    Do those fracking veins run up to the ground water level?

  • @topgun3758
    @topgun37585 жыл бұрын

    Renewable energy must keep evolving technology nobody knows how high gas and oil is going to go.

  • @Imthatdude8819

    @Imthatdude8819

    4 жыл бұрын

    @khana ristobal where are you paying 90k for a 20kw solar system? That's a rip off. Most are priced anywhere from 45k to the high end of 75k. Also the average home only uses 7-10kw of power per years. So that's cuts all your numbers in half. I'm for oil and fracking but if your going to argue about cost, atleast have your numbers right.

  • @Luke-id1cp
    @Luke-id1cp5 жыл бұрын

    God bless America

  • @HondaMechanic1
    @HondaMechanic15 жыл бұрын

    Pennsylvania loves it ..Pennsylvania is almost unliveable

  • @Naturenerd1000
    @Naturenerd10005 жыл бұрын

    Other Countries should have loads of shale too. It's just America's the first ones to look for it and pioneered the industry.

  • @relaxingnature2617
    @relaxingnature26175 жыл бұрын

    Fracking is NOT new tech ..its been around since the 60ies

  • @sugar19labarre91
    @sugar19labarre914 жыл бұрын

    Hey this America here Always Put English closed captions ON

  • @J1978watt
    @J1978watt5 жыл бұрын

    I work in the oilfield. I’m a mechanic. I work on production equipment like the engines that make the pump units go round and round. I also work on natural gas compressors that pump gas into the pipelines. I work tirelessly and sometimes round the clock (57 straight hours of work with 0 sleep) to make sure wells and compressors are running. I spend weeks at a time away from my wife and kids to make this happen. Now, no need to thank me cause your ass is warm in the winter, cool in the summer. All those family vacation trips. All the products you’re able to go to the store and purchase. Your clean clothes, the device your reading this comment on and pretty much everything you see and use on a daily basis to make your world turn. I drove my service truck back in on a lease road one time to work on a well on a farmers property once. Here come the old timer and his obese wife riding out in their Gator ( a John Deere utility vehicle) to talk to me. She starts going on about how everything should be solar or wind powered. Well neither the sun or the wind carried her big ass out there to tell me that nor did she walk. Crude oil carried her fat ass out there to tell me that just like crude oil allows all you leftists libtards to sit back and type big shit from your devices. FROM ALL OF US IN THE OIL AND GAS INDUSTRY, YOU’RE WELCOME!!!!!!!

  • @nondescript5225

    @nondescript5225

    4 жыл бұрын

    Do you say this to your wife every night? Cause it's a legit turn on. Men taking care of business!!!!

  • @toddsharpe7296

    @toddsharpe7296

    4 жыл бұрын

    Amen.

  • @Craptastic760
    @Craptastic7605 жыл бұрын

    This shale revolution is what prevented the post-2008 recession from lasting any longer than it did. While Obozo was trying to strangle our economy with regulation, green idiocy and progressive great ideas, the oil and gas industry defied his best attempts. Ironically, if not for this, Obozo would have been sitting on an 8 year recession that was only getting worse. His oil and gas enemies were the ones that prevented his tenure from being more financially disastrous than it was.

  • @tootired76

    @tootired76

    5 жыл бұрын

    Before Obummer and all the Dumbocrats focused on healthcare they were working on "Cap And Trade" which is essentially an energy tax! Like we need to pay more than the 65% that we are paying now! Glad it didn't go through! (Look up "hidden taxes".)

  • @mackdye9070

    @mackdye9070

    5 жыл бұрын

    When you by into the propaganda. LMAO

  • @jasonedwardwood
    @jasonedwardwood5 жыл бұрын

    Thank God for oil based mud!

  • @Usefullinformationphilippines
    @Usefullinformationphilippines5 жыл бұрын

    Shale fracking is the best thing to ever happen to America

  • @TheBeast1911
    @TheBeast19115 жыл бұрын

    This is why I'm investing in Weatherford :)

  • @michaelnixson9099
    @michaelnixson90995 жыл бұрын

    I’m no expert, but when I found out that the process pollutes ground water that was it. Water is such a precious essential nobody should be allowed to contaminate it. The gas will run out, but the pollution will remain. This industry has been instrumental in holding back the development of renewable energy. They hold way too much sway and although I hate government intrusion, in this industry it’s essential.

  • @dbx1233

    @dbx1233

    5 жыл бұрын

    You are a dumbass!

  • @davidrapalyea7727

    @davidrapalyea7727

    5 жыл бұрын

    michael nixson re fracking polutes ground water And airplanes crash. Both statements are true. Very few cases of it. My sister lives over a fracking field. Long before that she put out a burning wooden match under the well water fawcet and a gas bubble in the line popped and caught fire.

  • @Itistabaccobro
    @Itistabaccobro5 жыл бұрын

    I love the fact the interviewer has a heavy accent. An there ok with it

  • @ostapbendervan7874

    @ostapbendervan7874

    4 жыл бұрын

    why WOULD they not do Americans care when OVERSEAS Importing oil you think theygo he have accent

  • @kwmiked
    @kwmiked5 жыл бұрын

    Well the prices are all back up again and home heating oil is back to almost 3.00$ a gal, when in 16/17 it was a 1.65-1.85

  • @xtra-xsell9025
    @xtra-xsell90254 жыл бұрын

    That guy gets 25%? that's amazing.

  • @jay-rus4437
    @jay-rus44375 жыл бұрын

    If the ranch land was worth 8-10 million, why would they pay 1 billion for a lease? Sure seems like they could have easily offered 10, 20, even 30 million PLUS royalties.

  • @MistRVertexZ
    @MistRVertexZ5 жыл бұрын

    "what the fuck are you talking about?" was my imediate thought 40 seconds into this video