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Most people think the American shale boom is slowing down. But in 2025, Exxon quietly rolled out a refinery-waste innovation that makes fracking 15–20% more productive without drilling a single extra well.

This video breaks down how a pile of petroleum-coke waste became a lightweight proppant that moves deeper into rock, holds fractures open longer, and unlocks oil that sand can’t reach.
The result: more output, lower costs, and a shale outlook that could reshape global energy through 2026, 2030, and 2040.

In this video:

Why shale isn’t running out
How lightweight proppants travel deeper than sand
What Exxon changed in the fracking process
Why a 20% jump in efficiency is geopolitically massive
How this affects Russia, Saudi Arabia, and global oil prices
What the next decade of U.S. energy might look like

If this trend scales, the U.S. could effectively add another OPEC-sized producer using the same wells already in the ground.

Sources:
U.S. EIA, IEA, SPE research papers, ExxonMobil technical briefs, public Permian production data.

What do you think, does this become the fourth shale revolution?
Drop your take in the comments.

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