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The announcements capped a three-week visit to Houston by Mohammed bin Salman, Saudi Arabia's crown prince, during a boom in U.S. oil and gas production largely driven by West Texas shale drilling.
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The machine has already made its way through about 885 feet of soil and rock, and has hit shale where Rosie will pick up some speed.
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Steadily improving technology and the shale-drilling boom have made natural gas, wind and solar the growing sources of electricity.
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The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries and partners including Russia are working to reduce output, yet American shale drilling remains a persistent threat.
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The shale drilling revolution has remade the global energy market, with imports from members of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries plunging by 20 percent from late 2016 to late 2017.
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The success has come in the face of efforts by Saudi Arabia and its oil allies to undercut the shale drilling spree in the United States.
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Bones, flints, shale beads and antler headdresses have been recovered at what would've been in the lake's edge of these former wetlands.
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Until, that is, the subject of environmental concerns and the media coverage of the shale gas boom comes up.
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: a soft kind of rock that splits easily into flat pieces
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