Sentences with phrase «shale drilling boom»

The Haynesville Shale is one of the founding fathers of the modern shale drilling boom.

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US oil exploration companies have flocked to the superrich Permian Basin in recent years and used shale - drilling technology to create an oil boom that simultaneously helped trigger a price crash two years ago.

Advances in horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing over the past 20 years led to a U.S. energy boom in «unconventionals,» a category that includes the shale gas and «tight» oil found in shale fields like the Cretaceous Eagle Ford and Mowry and older ones like the Barnett and Bakken.

According to the IEA, the drilling boom for shale oil is putting US production on track to pass Saudi Arabia.

The recent oil shale boom was powered mostly by small firms because larger multinationals like Exxon and BP are structured for big payoff, technically - difficult projects like deep water drilling and Arctic exploration.

Tuesday's indictment followed a nearly four - year federal antitrust probe that began after a 2012 Reuters investigation found that Chesapeake had discussed with a rival how to suppress land lease prices in Michigan during a shale - drilling boom.

Drilling for natural gas is booming in Pennsylvania — thanks to fracturing shale rock with a water and chemical cocktail paired with the ability to drill in any direction.

Other parts of the country with shale beds («plays» in industry parlance), such as Wyoming, Colorado, Arkansas, and Louisiana, have experienced similar gas drilling booms.

Opponents of expanded gas drilling have coined the term «frackademia» for university research on the potential impacts of the boom in shale gas drilling that involves industry money or experts with industry ties.

Boria reported his agency received more than 140 complaints related to water pollution or gas migration associated with a boom in nearby conventional drilling operations (prior to shale gas development).

8:21 p.m. Updated The producers of Bloggingheads.TV invited me to join Abrahm Lustgarten of ProPublica in a discussion of the drilling boom aimed at the vast deposits of natural gas identified in deep shale layers and other deposits around North America and, increasingly, the world.

Thanks to fracking, horizontal drilling, and the shale gas boom, there is more natural gas at a lower price than there has been in decades.

Such leaks from coal mines and gas drilling sites are on the rise as a result of the shale gas boom in the US.

The US shale boom is drawing increasing attention from federal agencies worried about the potential hazards posed by drilling.

Reuters: The U.S. government on Tuesday jacked up its forecast for oil production next year by 250,000 barrels per day (bpd) as the boom in shale oil drilling continues to confound expectations of slower growth.

The ability to drill horizontal oil and gas wells and to «frack» shale by injecting pressurized sand and chemicals into the rock has enabled a huge boom in natural - gas production over the past decade.

Meanwhile, the ongoing American shale gas boom — powered in part by decades of federal investments in shale drilling technologies — is accelerating the closure of US coal - fired power plants.