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The history of shale gas production goes back more than two centuries. The production of this hydrocarbon resource was pioneered by the USA that accumulated considerable experience in development of the shale gas plays. The shale gas play development pushed further the development of new technologies that ensured considerable increase of this hydrocarbon resource production, thus, affecting the situation in the global gas market.
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Zhiltsov, S.S., Semenov, A.V. (2016). Shale Gas: History of Development. In: Zhiltsov, S. (eds) Shale Gas: Ecology, Politics, Economy. The Handbook of Environmental Chemistry, vol 52. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/698_2016_49
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