Keyword: shale gas extraction
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10.06.2014
- Germany plans to draw up new regulations for hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, before the parliamentary summer recess in August. While the regulations will allow fracking in some...
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07.04.2014
- U.S. lawmakers of the Republican party have charged that over regulation has prevented a shale oil boom in California and that easing the rules could boost production in the state...
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13.03.2014
- In a plenary session the European Parliament has voted to impose tougher rules governing the environmental impact of oil and conventional gas exploration, while at the same time...
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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...
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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...
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17.10.2013
- North Dakota's rapidly rising oil output continues to defy the skeptics, who have predicted that production would stop growing as declining output from existing wells offsets extra...
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15.10.2013
- CEO Peter Voser said it will take a longer time than expected for the company to reap benefits from its shale gas projects due to poor short-term results. Weak U.S. shale liquids...
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14.10.2013
- Saudi Aramco will join the United States in becoming an unconventional gas producer, as it prepares to commit gas supply to a major power plant project in northern Saudi Arabia...
