Diving Deep. An early shale-gas well in Poland
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Fracking a well, as any roughneck will tell you, is as much art as science. It was always going to take time to adapt the U.S. experience abroad--and it may not take in every country. But fracking is here to stay, scrambling a global energy picture that had long seemed settled. There's no guarantee it will be golden, but we're definitely entering the age of gas.
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