Fracking George Mitchell News Today

On Friday, the father of modern-day shale fracking and Texas billionaire oilman George Mitchell died. More than any other person, Mitchell is responsible for the current shale drilling revolution that has changed America's (and the world's) energy picture. It was Mitchell who kept experimenting, with his own money, on shale drilling until he finally "cracked"

One of the most important "fathers of fracking" you've likely never heard of before, Claude Cooke, passed away on Jan. 17 at the ripe old age of 94. Cooke is best known as the guy who invented ceramic proppant (beads) used in fracking. He invented it while working for Exxon in the seventies. The innovation