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Chris Wright: “We only get 10% of the oil out [from shale].”

Featuring: Chris Wright, Republican | Secretary of Energy | National

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How America Can Unleash the Next Energy Revolution: A Fireside Chat with Secretary Chris Wright

Published | Video Starts at 34:49

But the biggest innovations the rest of my lifetime and energy are almost certainly going to be in oil, gas and coal because they're what matter, like shale oil. Right now with this technique, we harvest oil that's in these impermeable rocks. We only get 10% of the oil out [from shale]. Like we're going to have another innovation and we're going to figure out how to get 20% of the oil out. Oh my God. (34:49–34:52)

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Asserts that current shale oil extraction techniques recover only a small fraction of available oil.

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