I simply want potential buyers to know what they're getting. Personally, I commend the author - an investigative reporter at The Wall Street Journal who has covered the industry for many years - for including this information as a journalist myself, I would have expected no less.
Second, close to 40% of the book's 385 pages consists of comprehensive source material and an alphabetic index. Gold tells the story of this once-obscure oilfield technology a story with an incredible cast of tycoons and geologists, dreamers and drillers, speculators and skeptics, a story that answers a critical question of our time: Where will the energy come from to power our world and what price will we have to pay for it?įor those interested in buying this book, I'll lay out two key points to consider: First, this has to be one of the most definitive books on the history, development and processes involved in hydraulic fracturing of gas and oil wells ever written (while it's easily understandable by those of us not that familiar with the practice or the industry, though, don't expect to skim through it). It has upended the business models of energy companies around the globe, and it has started to change geopolitics and global energy markets in profound ways. The result is an essential audiobook a commanding piece of journalism, an astounding study of human ingenuity, and an epic work of storytelling.įracking has vociferous critics and fervent defenders, but the debate between these camps has obscured the actual story: Fracking has become a fixture of the American landscape and the global economy. He has also sifted through reams of engineering reports, lawsuit transcripts, and financial filings.
Recognized as a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and a recipient of the Gerald Loeb Award for his work, Gold has traveled along the pipelines and into the hubs of this country s energy infrastructure he has visited frack sites from Texas to North Dakota and he has conducted thousands of interviews with engineers and wildcatters, CEOs and roughnecks, environmentalists and politicians. Russell Gold, a brilliant and dogged investigative reporter at "The Wall Street Journal," has spent more than a decade reporting on one of the biggest stories of our time: the spectacular, world-changing rise of fracking.
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