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New Export: Hydraulic Fracturing Technology?
August 2, 2012 | Washington Post

Hydraulic fracturing could be the technology that will have the greatest economic impact on world energy supplies over the next decade or even over the next century. It is currently being used extensively in the United States but other countries are anxious to start using it to develop their unconventional oil and natural gas resources.


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