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air pollution and, 309

Austin Chalk and, 176–77

Devon and, 144, 150

Eagle Ford in, 57, 192

energy trading and, 181, 200

fracking and, 24, 75–76, 127–28, 271

Grimes’s lawsuit and, 22–23

Mitchell and, 7, 15, 97, 105, 111, 115, 271

and opposition to coal, 242–49

Permian Basin in, 130, 181, 192, 230

and regulation of oil and gas, 98, 101, 106, 109–11, 151, 180

small-time operators in, 170

stealing oil and, 291

wind power and gas in, 36

Texas A&M University, 5, 89–91

Texas Clean Sky Coalition, 243, 250

There Will Be Blood, 291

THUMS project, 118–19, 125

Tillerson, Rex, 24, 58, 154, 300, 303

Time, 94

Tinker, Scott, 28

Tintera, John, 25

Tioga County, Pa., 221–22, 231

Titusville, Pa., 63–67

Todd, John C., 87

Trallo, John, 236–37

Transco pipeline, 222

Trinity Aquifer, 97–98, 108–12

Trust Company of the West (TCW), 173, 175

Tschacher, Pat, 44

Tulsa, Okla., 106–7, 145, 170, 199, 248

Fast and, 72–73, 75

Stanolind and, 43, 70, 72

Turner, Ted, 10–11

TXU Energy, 243–47

Uhl, Frank, 286–87

ultrasonic image logs, 287, 289–90

Unconventional Gas Research Program (UGR), 83–85

Union Pacific Resources, 127–28

Utica Shale, 192, 206–7, 221

Vance, Harold, 90–91

Veale Ranch #1H well, 146–47

volumetric production payments (VPPs), 194, 205

Voser, Peter, 25

Wagner, Curtis, 183

Wagon Wheel, Project, 82–83

Walker, Ray, 118, 127–28

Wall Street Journal, 184, 297 n

coverage of McClendon in, 162, 166

Deepwater Horizon and, 274

Gold’s employment at, 2–3, 162, 166, 274

Ward, Tom, 198

background of, 168–69

Chesapeake’s origins and, 169–70, 172–75

East Virgil prospect and, 170–72

finances of, 171, 173–75, 200

lawsuits of, 171–72

McClendon’s relationship with, 156, 168–70, 175–76, 197, 200

management style of, 175–76

mineral rights leasing and, 168–70

water, 138, 142, 282

Austin Chalk and, 176

Bartonville and, 299–300

Burkburnett and, 21

contamination of, 5, 30–32, 97–98, 100–101, 105–12, 218, 229–33, 248, 258–60, 262–63, 270–73, 276, 286–87, 289

Cooke and, 270–71, 276, 278–79

fracking and, 2, 5–6, 8–10, 13–15, 29–32, 40–41, 43–45, 51–53, 55, 61–62, 73, 75, 78, 103, 117–22, 124, 126–29, 135, 143–44, 146–47, 154, 190, 227, 229–30, 233, 248, 258, 270, 286, 292, 306–7

Gold’s parents’ land and, 31–32, 232

Mitchell and, 98–101, 105–12

mixing of gas and, 98–101, 105–6, 109, 111, 230–31, 272, 286–88

mixing of oil and, 98–100, 279

New York and, 258–59, 262–63

Roberts’s torpedo and, 66–67

salt, 31, 119, 143–45, 153, 271

shales and, 14–15, 117, 270–71

Sullivan County and, 210, 214–15, 218–20, 230, 232–33

in Trinity Aquifer, 97–98, 108–12

well construction integrity and, 71, 271–72, 276, 286–89

well integrity, 270–90, 308–9

cement and, 32, 71, 271–90, 292–93

Cooke and, 270–81, 284–85, 291–93, 307

Flatirons Development and, 286–90

West Virginia, 2, 84, 129–30, 143, 146, 255

White, Darwin K., 97–98, 100–101

Whitley, Mark, 121–23

Wilder, John, 243, 246

Wilmington oil field, 118–19

wind power, 34–36, 97, 113, 232, 262–64, 266, 301

fracking and, 34, 240, 306

gas and, 254, 262

wire-line business, 282

Wise, Bill, 181–83

Wise County, Tex.:

fracking and, 92–93, 103

Mitchell and, 88, 92–93, 98, 100–101, 103, 105, 107–12

Trinity Aquifer and, 108–9

water contamination and, 98, 101, 107, 110, 112

Woodin well, 67

Woodlands, Tex., 7, 91, 107, 117–18, 133, 271

Woodrow Starr #1 well, 43

World War II, 70–74, 84, 90

fracking and, 64, 73

oil and, 49, 70–71, 74

Wyoming, 38, 82–83, 246, 309

XTO Energy, 154, 188, 196

Yamani, Sheikh Zaki, 305

Yost, Al, 84–85, 146

Zilkhas family, 113

Zoback, Mark, 272

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Gold, Russell.

The boom : how fracking ignited the American energy revolution and changed the world / Russell Gold.

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1. Petroleum industry and trade—Environmental aspects—United States. 2. Oil wells—Hydraulic fracturing. 3. Energy policy—United States. 4. Energy consumption—United States. I. Title.

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1. I have used the spelling frack and fracking throughout this book for two reasons. First, they are the preferred spelling of the Wall Street Journal and other major newspapers. Second, the spelling fraced simply doesn’t convey the clipped cadence of the word as it is pronounced by opponents and engineers.