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Frackers The Outrageous Inside Story of the New Billionaire Wildcatters

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ISBN-10: 1591846455

ISBN-13: 9781591846451

Edition: N/A

Authors: Gregory Zuckerman

List price: $29.95
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The riveting, untold story of the men who are transforming global energy In five years, the United States has seen a historic burst of oil and natural gas production, easing our insatiable hunger for energy. A new drilling process called fracking has made us the world’s fastest growing energy power, on track to pass Saudi Arabia by 2020. But despite headlines and controversy, no previous book has shown how the revolution really happened. The Frackers tells the dramatic tale of how a group of ambitious and headstrong wildcatters ignored the ridicule of experts and derision of colleagues to pursue massive, long-overlooked deposits. Against all odds, they changed the world—and made astonishing…    
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Book details

List price: $29.95
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 11/5/2013
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 416
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.25" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 1.386
Language: English

GREGORY ZUCKERMAN is a senior writer at theWall Street Journal,where he has been a reporter for twelve years. He pens the widely read ldquo;Heard on the Streetrdquo; column and writes about hedge funds, investing, and other Wall Street topics. Zuckerman appears on CNBC twice a week to explain complex trades. He is a two-time winner of the Gerald Loeb Award for coverage of the credit crisis, the demise of WorldCom, and the collapse of hedge fund Amaranth Advisors, and he is a recipient of other awards.  From the Hardcover edition.