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Tuesday, November 20, 2012

How Will US Shale Oil Change the Global Energy Market?

How Will US Shale Oil Change the Global Energy Market?

For the past five years, progress in extracting gas and oil from shale deposits has been revolutionizing the energy industry in the United States. Now, a new report by the Paris-based International Energy Agency (IEA) shows how much it could shake up the global energy market as well.The agency predicts in its World Energy Outlook released on November 12 that the United States will become the world's biggest oil producer by 2017, overtaking current number one Russia and number two Saudi Arabia.The IEA, an intergovernmental organization that works…Read more...http://oilprice.com/Energy/Crude-Oil/How-Will-US-Shale-Oil-Change-the-Global-Energy-Market.html

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