George P. Mitchell, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
TweetGeorge P. Mitchell
American businessman and shale gas pioneer
Date of Birth: 21-May-1919
Place of Birth: Galveston, Texas, United States
Date of Death: 26-Jul-2013
Profession: businessperson
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Gemini 
About George P. Mitchell
- George Phydias Mitchell (May 21, 1919 – July 26, 2013) was an American businessman, real estate developer and philanthropist from Texas credited with pioneering the economic extraction of shale gas.According to The Economist, "few businesspeople have done as much to change the world as George Mitchell." The rise [in shale gas] has been helped along by a variety of factors ...
- But the biggest difference was down to the efforts of one man: George Mitchell, ...
- who saw the potential for improving a known technology, fracking, to get at the gas.
- Big oil and gas companies were interested in shale gas but could not make the breakthrough in fracking to get the gas to flow.
- Mr Mitchell spent ten years and $6m to crack the problem (surely the best-spent development money in the history of gas).
- Everyone, he said, told him he was just wasting his time and money.
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