History of oil & gas production from shale in pictures & charts: why US shale will crash and UK will fail

With fracking about to recommence in the UK after 8 years, a review of progress and prospects is in order. To understand why this latest fiasco in British energy policy and wider society has come about, it is necessary to

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With fracking about to recommence in the UK after 8 years, a review of progress and prospects is in order. To understand why this latest fiasco in British energy policy and wider society has come about, it is necessary to go right back to the beginning, around 2006, when fracking began in earnest in American shale ….and a multi-hundred-billion-dollar doomed-to-burst debt bubble began to build.

I hope this blog/slideshow will be useful. As ever, please use / adapt any way you want. The original powerpoints of this and future compilations will be available free, as many have requested, in this case via the url on slide 2.