Fracking From Sea to Shining Sea Seen by Drilling Pioneer
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Where others see purple mountain majesties, Kent Bowker sees buried treasure.
The 58-year-old geologist was part of a team that first extracted significant amounts of gas from a dense rock formation near Fort Worth, Texas, in the late 1990s. Now Bowker says he’s identified a sweet spot in the Rocky Mountains that, along with untapped shale in California, will add to output from Pennsylvania to Texas that’s already propelled the U.S. to No. 1 in the world for combined oil and gas production.