Understanding productivity effects of hydraulic fracturing in unconventional natural gas deposits and implications for adoption in the developing world

Business & Economics

• Developing World 100%
• Natural Gas 90%
• Deposits 89%
• Chemical Composition 80%
• Costs 72%
• Secrecy 59%
• Climate Policy 56%
• Learning-by-doing 56%
• Productivity 55%
• Oil and Gas Industry 53%
• Energy Demand 52%
• Consumer Surplus 50%
• Carbon Emissions 48%
• Intellectual Property 46%
• Incremental 42%
• Developing Countries 28%
• United States of America 24%

Social Sciences

• natural gas 89%
• productivity 78%
• firm 74%
• energy shortage 60%
• climate policy 59%
• gas industry 58%
• Oil industry 55%
• costs 53%
• secrecy 53%
• intellectual property 48%
• developing country 36%
• anxiety 30%
• evidence 19%
• learning 16%

Earth & Environmental Sciences

• hydraulic fracturing 91%
• natural gas 82%
• developing world 82%
• productivity 65%
• firm 37%
• effect 22%
• gas industry 21%
• energy demand 20%
• surplus 20%
• oil industry 20%
• cost 19%
• environmental policy 19%
• carbon emission 18%
• learning 15%
• chemical composition 14%
• fluid 10%