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Can US shale really protect America from oil shocks?

For decades the US has been susceptible to oil price shocks due to political volatility in the Middle East. However, as the FT’s Jamie Smyth explains, the landscape has been transformed by the US shale revolution. With global markets now awash with American oil, are price surges a thing of the past for the US?

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