The first recorded application of hydraulic fracturing technology took place in Kansas in 1947.

In 2010, the development of shale gas supported 600,000 jobs. That figure is expected to surpass 870,000 in 2015.

On average, the process of completing a well via the fracturing process takes between two and five days.

In 2010, the United States passed Russia as the world’s largest producer of natural gas.

More than 485,000 natural gas wells are currently active in the U.S. Nearly all have been made viable thanks to the fracturing process.

Fracturing technology has been safely applied to more than 1.2 million wells in the U.S. over the past 65 years.

U.S. EPA has historically used fracturing technology as a tool to remediate Superfund sites.

By 2015, shale will account for 43 percent of the nation’s natural gas supply, up from only one percent a decade ago.

The first patent for the commercial application of horizontal drilling was awarded in 1981.

FracFocus.org – a national disclosure database for fracturing solutions – hosts data for more than 19,000 individual wells.

Every step of oil and natural gas development is directly regulated by states, the federal government or both.

Hydraulic fracturing is also used to enhance flow from water wells and to stimulate the production of geothermal energy.

Most states require fracturing sites to be fully reclaimed and remediated 90 to 120 days after development concludes.

Oil and natural gas development created nearly one out of every 10 new jobs in the U.S last year, according to federal data.

America’s history of commerical production from shale dates back to the 1940s, when natural gas was first produced from the Antrim in northern Michigan.

In 18 months, producers in Pennsylvania went from recycling zero percent of their wastewater to more than 90 percent of it.

U.S. consumers will save $113 billion per year on energy through 2015 thanks to shale, according to Federal Reserve economists.

In large part because of its expanded use of natural gas, New York has the lowest per-capita CO2 emissions of any state.