Shale is booming, but not in Europe it seems. There's plenty of talk, not a lot of action, and what there has been has mostly so riled local populaces and NGOs that it has largely ground to a halt pending clarification, even legislation.
One of my favourite publications is the annual BP Statistical Review of World Energy, the 2012 edition of which has just been published. It gives energy consumption and production statistics for all the regions in the world and for many individual countries.
As the world puts the economic downturn behind, it will face a major challenge of meeting substantial growth in world demand, according to Daniel Yergin.
