Keyword: US shale gas

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Bakken Flaring Burns More Than $100 Million A Month

31.07.2013 - Oil drillers in North Dakota's Bakken shale fields are allowing nearly a third of the natural gas they drill to burn off into the air, with a value of more than $100 million per...

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New DOE Fracking Study Claims No Contamination of Drinking Water

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...

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U.S. Rules on Fracking on Public Lands Seen Costing Drillers Dearly

23.07.2013 - Oil and gas companies in the U.S. West would face at least $345 million a year in extra costs if rules on hydraulic fracturing on public lands proposed by the Obama administration...

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Fracking Can Lead to ‘Triggered Quakes,’ Study Reveals

12.07.2013 - Powerful earthquakes thousands of miles away can trigger swarms of minor quakes near wastewater-injection wells like those used in oil and gas recovery, scientists reported on...

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John Kemp: Shale, The Unfinished Revolution

28.06.2013 - Opinion - Shale has revolutionized oil and gas supply and the global political balance in less than five years, transforming the narrative from one about "peak energy" into a story...

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U.S. Environmental Agency Leaves Wyoming Fracking Review to State

24.06.2013 - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency may be growing footsore in its struggle to regulate hydraulic fracturing (fracking) or may simply have decided not to try to fight every...

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Delving Deeper into Value Chain Collaboration

03.06.2013 - Top Management Survey - The previous edition of C3X found that the European chemical industry can generate additional sales of up to €25 billion if it is able to better exploit the...

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New US Fracking Rules Attempt to Placate Opposing Camps

17.05.2013 - The Obama administration on Thursday unveiled a new proposal for regulating hydraulic fracturing on federal lands, rolling back some measures from its original, abandoned draft as...