Evolution - How the Shale Boom Remade the Gas Market and Turned the U.S. Into a Major LNG Exporter

29/09/2025 13 min
Evolution - How the Shale Boom Remade the Gas Market and Turned the U.S. Into a Major LNG Exporter

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It’s well understood today that the U.S. natural gas market turned from potential domestic shortages to major LNG exports thanks to the Shale Revolution. What is not so well remembered is that the dramatic shift in the U.S. gas market wasn’t widely understood at the time and took several years to be accepted by the energy industry. In today’s RBN blog, we turn our attention to the beginnings of the Shale Revolution and how it allowed the U.S. to evolve into the world’s largest LNG exporter. 

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