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Benefits to be gained from increased oil and natural gas development

Gasoline prices are higher today at least in part because government has neglected to pay sufficient attention to the importance of producing more of our own oil and natural gas.

See how refined products from the oil and natural gas industry power the world.

Natural gas is more complex than you might think. It's actually primarily composed of a mixture of four naturally occurring gases that have different molecular structures. These gasses are used for an amazing variety of purposes in our modern lives.

In the Marcellus, about 10% to 30% of the fluid used to fracture a well returns to the surface and is captured with produced gas. This fluid is called flowback water.

Explore the many ways the oil and natural gas industry use the latest technologies to help protect groundwater during the hydraulic fracturing process.

American oil and gas producers have deployed new technologies to provide access to trapped oil and gas once thought inaccessible. The combination of horizontal drilling with hydraulic fracturing has provided the country with a vast new supply of natural gas and increased domestic oil production.

North Dakota is a model for development of the nation’s unconventional oil resources.

The development of the Marcellus shale is providing a new energy boom to the Keystone state.

In the hydraulic fracturing process, there are about 10 inches of steal and concrete shielding. That's the shield protecting Mother Nature as rigs extract much-needed clean-burning natural gas from deep beneath shale formations from Pennsylvania to Texas.