Keyword: hydraulic fracturing
News
17.12.2013
- Ineos chairman Jim Ratcliffe has said the company may apply to pursue shale gas exploration in the UK when the government begins awarding additional fracking licenses. However, no...
News
27.11.2013
- One of Asia's largest chemicals and plastics producers, Taiwan-based Formosa Plastics, is seeking to cash in on the U.S. shale gas boom with its own $2 billion ethane cracker in...
News
19.11.2013
- Colorado announced proposed rules on Monday designed to reduce emissions during oil and gas operations in an agreement with drillers that addresses one key environmental concern...
Chemistry & Life Sciences
26.08.2013
- Shale Gas is Rolling in U.S. - Although shale gas extraction has been known and performed to a limited extent for decades in the U.S., exploitation has become competitive only in...
News
21.08.2013
- A shale gas deal in Ukraine hit a setback on Tuesday when a local council rejected the government's draft production-sharing agreement with U.S. energy company Chevron amid...
News
29.07.2013
- RusPetro, the only Russian company focused on hard-to-extract "tight oil", said it would get significant tax relief for almost all of its current crude production under a law...
News
25.07.2013
- The controversial findings of a new shale gas study commissioned by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and conducted by the department's National Energy Technology Laboratory in...
Chemistry & Life Sciences
24.07.2013
- Crack To The Future - The petrochemical feedstock world is changing. Historically most petrochemical feedstock came from the refinery, with refinery naphtha and liquefied petroleum...