Inside U.S. oil’s return to global wildcatting: ‘It’s like geo-porn’

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A volcanologist working at the U.S. Geological Survey, Ezra Yacob made a career-defining leap in 2005 when he joined Houston oil producer EOG Resources and its geoscience team at the beginning of the shale revolution.

“It was this real acknowledgment that we’re opening up a new frontier in petroleum exploration,” Yacob said at a Hart Energy conference this week in Houston. “That really appealed to me”