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‘Even God Forgot This Place’: Welcome to the Oilfields of Azerbaijan. Azerbaijan sold an average of 880,000 barrels of oil per day, and was one of the world’s fastest-growing economies for several years.
Water Use for Fracking Has Skyrocketed, Stressing Drought-Ridden States. The median amount of water consumed by a single fracked well grew from 177,000 per oil and gas well in 2000 to more than 4 million gallons per oil well and 5.1 gallons per gas well in 2004.