The Shale Oil Revolution in the USA – Can it Continue?
Maurice B. Dusseault
Professor of Geological Engineering, University of Waterloo
WISE Member

As one may deduce from a number of recent articles, shale oil in the US (and slightly in Canada) has come to play a remarkable and novel role in the world of oil prices.  Although once viewed as a challenging and difficult “unconventional” resource, drilling improvements, hydraulic fracturing improvements, and an “assembly line”…

            At the beginning of April 2017, I had the great opportunity to represent the University of Waterloo and the Waterloo Institute for Sustainable Energy at the 1^st International Conference on Energy Research and Social Science. Hosted in Sitges, Spain, this conference brought together an engaging group of academics, policy makers and professionals in the sphere of energy research and social science. Affiliated with the Energy Research & Social Science Journal, the theme for the…