Resumen de The US shale boom

Alexandra Phillips

• The article focuses on the predictions given by petroleum firm BP PLC and the International Energy Agency (IEA) regarding the petroleum industry in the U.S. by 2018. It states that the U.S. petroleum industry will be the largest gas exporter by 2018. Also discussed are the historical events in the Gulf War in 1991, the U.S. shale boom, which provides alternative energy sources to Middle East, and the advantages of technological innovations in the horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing.