We’ve recognized that natural gas would be the fastest-growing of the conventional fuels: oil, natural gas, coal. And so, we see the important role that natural gas will play globally and, more importantly, the important role it will play in the U.S. in terms of meeting future energy demand. Rex Tillerson Read Quote
We have been blessed in many respects with the explosion of the development of shale gas resources here in North America. It’s both U.S. and in Canada. Rex Tillerson Read Quote
We have for many years included a price of carbon in our outlook. We put it in as a cost. Everything gets tested against it. Rex Tillerson Read Quote
Flue gas extraction is really, really hard to do. It’s not that we can’t do it – just not at a cost that anyone will bear. Rex Tillerson Read Quote
We recognize that greenhouse gas emissions are one of the factors affecting climate change. Rex Tillerson Read Quote
In any country when you’re going to make significant commitments, you have to look the head of state of that country eyeball to eyeball and say to them, ‘I’m going to make this commitment, and I’m counting on you and your commitments.’ Rex Tillerson Read Quote
The consequences of a misstep in a well, while large to the immediate people that live around that well, in the great scheme of things are pretty small, and even to the immediate people around the well, they could be mitigated. Rex Tillerson Read Quote
We’ve been hydraulically fracturing wells in large numbers since the 1960s, first developed in 1940. Rex Tillerson Read Quote
Because we have a society that by and large is illiterate in these areas – science, math and engineering – what we do is a mystery to them, and they find it scary. And because of that, it creates easy opportunities for opponents of development, activist organizations, to manufacture fear. Rex Tillerson Read Quote