Hughes quoted in investigation of EIA and fracking
May 23, 2014
Post Carbon Fellow David Hughes was quoted in this article at DeSmog Blog investigating the links between the EIA’s John Krohn and the fracking industry.
From the article:
Krohn has also co-authored two articles for “Today in Energy!” painting a rosy picture of shale gas and oil production numbers — one a summary of EIA’s March Drilling Productivity Report and the other a summary of EIA’s Annual Energy Outlook 2014. In line with the rosy numbers and figures published byEIA, Krohn’s articles served to echo those findings.
“The productivity of oil and natural gas wells is steadily increasing in many basins across the United States because of the increasing precision and efficiency of horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing in oil and natural gas extraction,” reads the March article. “Many resource-producing basins are experiencing an increasing yield over time in either oil (Bakken, Eagle Ford, Niobrara) or natural gas (Marcellus, Haynesville).”Hughes’ “Drill Baby, Drill” comes to far different conclusions about those fields. The day after Krohn’s article was published, Energy in Depth published an article citing and quoting from it…