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Lyco @lyco 14/11/2013

Improving U.S. oil production reaches milestone in October, agency says
▻http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/improving-us-oil-production-reaches-milestone-in-october-agency-says/2013/11/13/dd01db86-4c97-11e3-9890-a1e0997fb0c0_story.html
The United States produced more crude oil in October than it imported for the first time since early 1995, as domestic shale oil output continued to surge and U.S. consumption of petroleum products remained relatively flat, the Energy Information Administration said Wednesday.
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The trend is expected to continue for another decade as U.S. domestic oil supplies grow and reliance on imports shrinks, easing one of the main sources of pressure on global oil markets.
The turnaround in U.S. oil fortunes has been rapid. Five years ago, U.S. oil production hit a 62-year low. Since then, domestic production has increased by more than 50 percent.
#énergie #pétrole #pétrole_de_schiste #Etats-Unis
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- Lyco @lyco 14/11/2013
  
  5 Ways the Fracking Boom Changes Politics
  ▻http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2013/11/5-ways-the-fracking-boom-changes-politics-98984.html?ml=m_b2_2
  - “People predicting a manufacturing renaissance in the United States usually imagine whirring robots or advanced factories turning out wind turbines and solar panels. The real American edge might be in something entirely more mundane: cheap starting materials for plastic bottles and plastic bags.” These may not be the high-tech, high-value jobs Americans long for, but they are jobs nonetheless.
  [...]
  – A total of about 40 senators hail from states that now have significant shale oil and gas prospects. Some represent what might fairly be called America’s petrostates [...]. It doesn’t require a political genius to see that these states’ government representatives will increasingly be defined by their support for that oil and gas: The oil and gas industry made some $73 million in total political contributions in the 2012 election cycle, nearly seven times what it spent in 1990. What do these folks want for their money? If the past is any indication, we’ll see attacks on the Environmental Protection Agency, hostility to climate science and a tendency to subvert other important issues to defend the industry.
  #gaz_de_schiste
  
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