3
Interview with Dan Steward; Steward, The Barnett Shale Play; Gold, The Boom; Steffy, George P. Mitchell, p. 23 («sad»); Roger Galatas, «Why George Mitchell Sold the Woodlands,» The Woodlands History, December 2011 («hated»).
4
Interview with Dan Steward; Steffy, George P. Mitchell, p. 254 (quarter billion).
5
Interviews with Dan Steward, Nick Steinsberger, and Larry Nichols.
6
Balancing Natural Gas Policy: Fueling the Demands of a Growing Economy, vol. 1 (Washington, D.C.: National Petroleum Council, September 2003), p. 16; National Petroleum Council, Committee on Natural Gas, September 3, 2003, transcript, pp. 30-31 («hell of a big difference»).
7
Interview with Larry Nichols.
8
Land man – служащий нефтяной компании, ответственный за отношения с владельцами участка, который компания арендует. – Прим. пер.
9
Russell Gold, «Natural Gas Costs Hurt US Firms,» Wall Street Journal, February 17, 2004.
10
Potential Supply of Natural Gas in the United States, Report of the Potential Gas Committee (2011, 2019). President Obama, Remarks on America’s Energy Security, Georgetown University, March 30, 2011.
11
Billion cubic feet – 1 млрд кубических футов. В США используется так называемая короткая шкала. Поэтому 1 млрд куб. футов равен 2,83 · 107 м3. – Прим. пер.
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Trillion cubic feet – 1 трлн куб. футов, равен 2,83 · 1010 м3. – Прим. пер.
13
Interview with Mark Papa; Lawrence C. Strauss, «The Accidental Oil Man,» Barron’s, October 22, 2011.
14
Interview with Mark Papa; EOG Presentation, 2010.
15
Interview with John Hess; Time, December 1, 1952.
16
Cornell Lab of Ornithology, «All About Birds: Say’s Phoebe»; Scott R. Loss, Tom Will, and Peter P. Marra, «The Impact of Free-Ranging Domestic Cats on Wildlife of the United States,» Nature Communications 4 (2013); Christopher Helman, «Judge Throws Out Criminal Case Against Oil Companies for Killing Birds at Drilling Sites,» Forbes, January 18, 2012; United States v. Brigham Oil & Gas, L.P., 840 F. Supp. 2d 1202 (D.N.D. 2012); «Federal Court Holds That the Migratory Bird Treaty Act Does Not Apply to Lawful Activities That Result in the Incidental Taking of Protected Birds,» Stoel Rives LLP, January 30, 2012.
17
Edgar Wesley Owen, Trek of the Oil Finders: A History of Exploration for Petroleum (Tulsa: American Association of Petroleum Geologists, 1975), pp. 886, 890.
18
Jon Meacham, Destiny and Power: The American Odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush (New York: Random House, 2016), p. 92.
19
Richard Nehring, «Hubbert’s Unreliability,» Oil and Gas Journal, April 17, 2006; Leta Smith, Sang-Won Kim, Pete Stark, and Rick Chamberlain, «The Shale Gale Goes Oily,» IHS CERA, 2011.
20
Interview with Scott Sheffield; Pioneer Natural Resources, «Wolfcamp Horizontal Play,» Board Presentation, November 16, 2011; Pioneering Independent (Irving: Pioneer Natural Resources, 2018), chapters 8 and 9.
21
David Mitchell, «Change Is Coming,» New Orleans Advocate, September 23, 2015.
22
В целом до остановки экономики из-за COVID-19 вся нефтегазовая отрасль обеспечивала 12,3 млн рабочих мест в Соединенных Штатах.
23
Jason Thomas, «Commodities, and the Global Slowdown,» Carlyle Group, January 2020; Mohsen Bonakdarpour, IHS Markit Economics; PricewaterhouseCoopers, Impacts of the Natural Gas, Oil, and Petrochemical Industry on the U.S. Economy in 2018 (PWC, 2020).
24
Daniel Raimi, The Fracking Debate: The Risks, Benefits and Uncertainties of the Shale Revolution (New York: Columbia University Press, 2018); International Energy Agency, Tracking Fuel Supply (Paris: November 2019); Oil and Gas Climate Initiative, «Keeping the Accelerator on Methane Reduction,» Blog, April 2020, https://oilandgasclimateinitiative.com/keeping-the-accelerator-on-methane-reduction/.
25
IHS, America’s New Energy Future: The Unconventional Oil and Gas Revolution and the United States Economy, vol. 1 (October 2012); vol. 2 (December 2012); vol. 3 (September 2013); Jeff Meyer, «Trade Savings: How the Shale Revolution Helped Moderate the Trade Deficit,» IHS Markit Report, July 2020.
26
American Chemistry Council, «Notes on Shale Gas, Manufacturing, and the Chemical Industry,» February 2020.
27
Daniel Fisher, «Shale Gas and Buffett’s Billions Fuel Turnaround at Dow Chemical,» Forbes, October 15, 2014 («pivoted»); Zain Shauk, «Cheap Natural Gas Feeds Chemical Industry Boom,» Houston Chronicle, April 19, 2012; Alex MacDonald, «Voestalpine Bets Big on U.S. Shale-Gas Boom,» Market Watch, May 24, 2013.
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Каджуны – этническая группа, проживающая на юге штатов Луизиана, Техас и Миссисипи, потомки франкоканадцев, высланных англичанами в 1755–1763 гг. с территории современной канадской провинции Новая Шотландия. –