Topic

Shale oil and gas

Production of oil and natural gas from low-permeability rock using horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing, the technique that reshaped U.S. output from the mid-2000s.

Current clusters

invest1 publisher

Two wells carry EOG's case for exporting the shale playbook to Abu Dhabi

EOG's chairman says Abu Dhabi rock looks like the Eagle Ford and the first wells are beating expectations. The constraint on everyone copying him is a generation of engineers who have never drilled a dry hole.

Publishers:fortune.com

Reality

Evidence40
Adoption25
Hype gap+35
Incentives70
Confidence55