>> fracking only works in the US. why is that?
Because our oilmen are heartless bastards bent on destroying Gaia and we are the only nation with enough plutonium to make fracking fluid? :-)
But seriously, my guess is fracking would work anywhere in the world where the oil and gas are in similar tight formations. But it’s currently only USED in the US, because the rest of world is mainly pumping easy oil, plus we’re the only ones with the technological savvy.
They are starting to Frack in the UK. The Greenies are messing on themselves. http://frack-off.org.uk/locations/
The rest of the world’s oil and gas is not owned by individual citizens. In the US private property owners sold their gas. In most other countries the government owns the stuff.
So in the USA it is not “our” gas. It is Bill’s gas or Susy’s gas and guess what? They want it drilled and sold.
Not just tight formations. We have used it for decades in traditional oil/gas plays as well.
But it’s currently only USED in the US,
False. Even Saudi Arabia has started using hydraulic fracturing. But the US does have the greatest use of it, so far.
Horizontal drilling and high volume hydaulic fracturing is used in Canada too.