Last week, I had the privilege of giving a presentation on hydraulic fracturing at the Ohio State Bar Association's 25th Annual Ohio Environment, Energy and Resources Law Seminar (yes, shameless self-promotion). I mentioned as part of the talk the benefit that shale oil production was seeing from the technologies developed to access gas in the Barnett Shale and other shale formations around the country. As luck would have it, the Fort Worth Business Press yesterday had a related article here, observing that: "The past decade has been all about gas, gas, gas, but new technologies developed for that commodity are turning out to be just as effective in a burgeoning rejuvenation of a more storied fuel: oil."
