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Abstract

This book highlights the problems of the shale gas production that influenced greatly the situation in the global gas market. It brings into focus such issues as production technologies, environment protection, and impact of the consequences of the shale gas production on a man. The book also investigates the role of shale gas in development and implementation of foreign policy of many world countries that welcomed the possibility to organize production of this hydrocarbon in their own countries. Taking into consideration the information published by world energy research centers, the prospects of the shale gas production in different regions of the world are studied. This book seeks to integrate such issues as shale gas production, politics, technological development, and ecology. It will be of use for the specialists in the area of hydrocarbon production, international relations and foreign policy, world economics and technologies, and ecology and environment protection.