With the escalation of fracking over the last several years and the resulting increase in oil and natural gas production, the US energy industry has undergone a significant turnaround. Not only is the country producing more of its own energy and importing less from foreign oil giants,

For decades, petroleum engineers have known of vast quantities of oil trapped under the ground in Colorado’s oil shale rock.  And for decades, oil companies have been struggling to find an economically viable way to release that oil from the underground rock. The most abundant oil sha