O&G Expert Says It’s Time to Forget Fracking, Use Natural Cracks

Here's a new one for us. An oil and gas consultant says maybe we should just forget about fracking. Keep drilling oil and gas wells, but don't use fracking. He says natural micro and macro fractures already exist in the rock and if you drill it right using a technique called "Near Balanced Reservoir Drilling," you can tap existing deposits of gas and oil at half the price. Is he right?

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