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Towards a new geopolitics of energy ? / Laura Parmigiani, IFRI édito énergie, 5/09/2012http://www.ifri.org/?page=detail-contribution&#38;id=7294First of all, shale oil is starting to take the same dimension as shale gas in the US. Already 51% of US production comes presently from unconventional gas (shale, tight gas and coal-bed methane), and outlooks predict that the US will produce more gas than Russia by 2020. Oil imports have already diminished from 60 to 45%. As domestic unconventional oil production tends to increase, - it is now around 15% - imports will probably decline even more...