"...this is a passive hero, for all his keyboard-tapping, trapped in an inert, finger-twiddling narrative," she wrote.
Prompted by Chesapeake's success in tapping gas trapped in the geologically tricky Barnett Shale of Texas, McClendon set out in 2003 to buy up promising acreage in other shale regions: the Marcellus, Fayetteville and Haynesville.
But all the while they were evacuating the men in their immediate vicinity, he recalled, they heard tapping, tapping, tapping eerie, pervasive tapping, of men trapped in the myriad other compartments of the battleship.
The Department of Energy boasts in news releases about helping jump-start the boom in drilling by financing some research that made it possible to tap the gas trapped in shale formations deep underground.
Certainly not those who were there, who smelled the blazing oil on the water, heard the shriek of sirens and planes, the frantic tapping of men trapped in the capsized Oklahoma.
Other firms plan to ship compressed, rather than liquid, gas a less capital-intensive process that might make smaller fields profitable.Meanwhile, America has recently reversed a steady decline in domestic gas production, thanks to new technology that allows firms to tap previously inaccessible gas trapped in coal, shale and some types of sandstone.
Simmons' critics insist he doesn't appreciate the power of new technology to tap previously unreachable deposits trapped in shale or under ultradeep water.
Instead, new drilling technologies — hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling — have enabled energy companies to tap vast quantities of gas trapped in rock.
"In a classic 'Spinal Tap' moment, we were trapped in the elevator for fifteen minutes".
Then a shower of them, tapping the windshield like hail, wings trapped in the wipers, orange and black.
A qanāt taps underground mountain water sources trapped in and beneath the upper reaches of alluvial fans and channels the water downhill through a series of gently sloping tunnels, often several kilometres long, to the places where it is needed for irrigation and domestic use.
