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US frackers cash in on global oil surge

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Ines Pohl
April 21, 2022

North Dakota is a hub of the US hydraulic fracturing industry and the country's second-biggest oil producer. Surging demand for fracked oil and gas amid the Ukraine war means booming business, sidelining green energy.

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