Sentences with phrase «called oil shale»

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The so - called shale revolution could help to alleviate Washington's reliance on foreign oil, including from turbulent Middle Eastern states, while also supporting a bid to export to more countries around the world.

After years of declines, U.S. oil production has picked up dramatically since 2010 thanks to the so - called «shale revolution.»

Thanks to the so - called shale revolution, the US has enough oil that it's actually exporting more than 3 million barrels a day of gasoline and diesel to the rest of the world.

His company, Knightsbridge Risk Management, a private security firm in Dallas that serves the oil and gas industry, is getting calls from companies that want to plan ahead in case they shut down drilling operations in North Dakota and the Bakken shale formation.

U.S. shale oil billionaire Harold Hamm, who once called the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, a «toothless tiger,» https://www.reuters.com/article/us-contl-resources-ceo-hedging-idUSKBN0IQ18R20141107 is now crediting the 14 - nation group for its steps to boost crude prices.

HOUSTON, May 3 (Reuters)- U.S. shale oil billionaire Harold Hamm, who once called the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, a «toothless tiger,» here is now crediting the 14 - nation group for its steps to boost crude prices.

Since 2008, he's called practically every major shale play before the mainstream press got wind of them — including the now - famous Bakken oil formation and the companies that have raked in billions in profits for their shareholders.

Their prediction of so - called «explosive» shale oil production growth is also being brought into question.

What scientists call naturally occurring radioactive materials — known by the acronym NORM — are common in oil and gas drilling waste, and especially in brine, the dirty water that has been soaking in the shale for centuries.

National Asssociation of Manufacturers calls for legislation to support development of oil shale and other «liquification» technologies:

Given our nation's need to control energy costs and improve energy security, many policymakers are calling for a comprehensive national energy policy that promotes and develops all of America's own energy resources — conventional and shale natural gas, oil, wind, nuclear, solar, etc. — to diversify energy supply.

Another thing, it's the assessment of what the production and use of shale gas and so - called unconventional oil can mean for the climate.

(1) Putting aside actual so - called fossil carbon (i.e. shales, coal, oil, gas tar sands) which are all relatively unreactive geologically overall (unless those pesky humans dig them up and burn them) there are in fact (today) substantial pools of potentially more reactive «fixed» carbon other than the active biosphere's biomass.

In particular, he's an excellent commentator on all things energy, such as the so - called «shale gas and tight oil revolution» and the much vaunted «U.S. Energy Independence» meme (is meme still a word?).

The dramatic increase in domestic oil and gas production since 2008 — the so - called «shale revolution» — has been a boon to the US economy and the Obama administration... At the core of this evolution is hydraulic fracturing.

It's not about the environment and all about the royalties: Money Received From Leases Far Lower Than Conventional Oil Salazar called the leases «flawed» because the 5 % royalty rate paid for oil shale production on those lands «sells the taxpayers short&raquOil Salazar called the leases «flawed» because the 5 % royalty rate paid for oil shale production on those lands «sells the taxpayers short&raquoil shale production on those lands «sells the taxpayers short».

For politicians in Alberta and a handful of western US states the so - called unconventional oil source known as oil or tar sands and oil shale is the energy trump card.

In what Treehugger writer John Laumer calls the Climate Trifecta,» Bullion Monarch Mining Co., is proposing to produce oil from oil shale using coal gasification, which they label as a «clean coal» technology.