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By Keith Reid I first started reporting on the petroleum industry in 1999. At that time, the conventional wisdom was fairly well established. The United States would never again be a major oil producer. Demand for refined products, particularly gasoline, would continue an inexorable increase. Conventional oil throughout the world would become scarce. Prices would continue to rise upward. That ...

Whether you are involved in the natural gas liquids sector, or are compassionately adverse to the efforts of that sector, one thing is clear—they have taken a pounding in the media, specifically over extraction methods and waste management.   They are, however, not lying down. Consider activity on the water, methane emissions and carbon fronts. Waterless Fracking I would venture ...