Shale’s Prudence Wins Over Debt Market With $42 Billion of Bonds

  • Explorers use record low yields to retire costlier debt
  • Turnaround reflects use of cash flow to improve balance sheet
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Shale drillers -- some of them just emerging from bankruptcy -- racked up a staggering $42 billion in new debt in the first half of the year.

It’s not what you think.