This is a combination of sophisticated steerable drilling technology using modern micro-seismic imaging and advancedmaterial sciences, to create webs of minuscule cracks in shale and release abundant trapped natural gas.
In recent tests at the company's AdvancedTechnology Centre in Bristol, a special liquid has been used to construct a material that is thinner than normal body armour and yet is able to stop a low-velocity bullet.
With the help of advanced computer technology used to design fighter planes, he has been able to calculate structure, curvature, material and cost so accurately that forms impossible to create and build through traditional methods can now be brought in on budget and on time.