We recently sat down with noted shale geologist Dan Steward to get some first-hand insight in inside the industry from some of the earliest days in shale gas.  Steward was part of the pioneering team with Mitchell Energy that revolutionized the shale gas industry, beginning with the B

Just a few decades ago, fracking was fringe science.  In fact, there was a lot of skepticism about whether it could ever work.  But in the 1970s, two entities joined together to risk big money on what many considered a pipe dream: the O&G industry and good ol’ Uncle Sam. Now that