31.07.2014
- The UK government is pressing ahead with plans to fully embrace shale gas. On July 28, the Department for Energy and Climate Change launched the "14th onshore licensing round,"...
09.06.2014
- The UK government plans to ease the rules for exploration companies drilling for shale oil and gas as well as sweetening the pill for communities affected by the drilling. At the...
13.05.2014
- UK oil and gas exploration company IGas has agreed to take over Australian rival Dart Energy in an all-share deal valuing the acquisition candidate at £117 million. At the same...
18.02.2014
- Ineos has secured a second shale gas supply contract, with Consor Energy of the U.S., to feed its European crackers in Norway, the U.K., France and Germany from 2015. The ethane...
14.01.2014
- Total has become the first major oil and gas company to strike a deal to explore for shale gas in Britain, boosting a technology which has brought cheap energy to the United States...
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...
12.11.2013
- The discussion of the potential hazards of shale gas extraction has been enriched by two recent reports from the UK and the U.S. While the first report seeks to assure skeptics...
25.10.2013
- Ineos said on Oct. 25 it would restart all production units at Grangemouth "immediately," after shuttering them on Oct. 15 at the height of its long-running dispute with the trade...
