The Rising Influence of Rising Affluence

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That’s a generally good article with few goofs, eg as far as I can tell, the fracturing in the Khazzan reservoirs is not slick water like used in many US “unconventional” reservoirs. It’s also dry gas which is not what a lot of US producers r chasing.

I have no doubt that the Russians will massively increase production from hydraulically fractured unconventional oil resources. Their rate limiting steps r not available, knowledgeable people, appropriate infrastructure support, or technology and I doubt they’ll fall into the 1 recipe must be used in all cases approach that may be applied elsewhere.