December 2012
Supplement

Oil and gas are U.S. lynchpins

Chris Cragg. The oil and gas business is at an unusual juncture in our long history. Business is good—oil prices are stable, we’re faster and more efficient than ever in solving sub-surface engineering problems, and our industry now has a decades-long inventory of known, productive drilling locations in the U.S. Yet today, despite our success, we find ourselves in a precarious situation.

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