Slowly, surely, and seemingly without too much attention, the US has become the world’s largest oil and gas producer, hitting an output the same as a combined Russia and Saudi Arabia. But how did this happen? This decades-long process wasn’t all down to Donald Trump (thought he might benefit from its results). As such, we take a deep dive into how we got here, where we’re going, and if Trump’s promise to ‘drill baby, drill’ will open new areas for exploration.
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