Sentences with phrase «for shale drilling»

Another significant observation is that the shaky financial position for some shale drillers also suggests that the downside risk to oil prices might not be as serious as once thought.

The Secretary General of OPEC, Mohammed Barkindo, has a message for shale drillers.

Not exact matches

As it happens, EnCana itself has invested in a specialized $ 10 - million plant near its Peace River, B.C., operations that treats «sour» water from a saline aquifer for use in its shale drilling.

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The gas is there, quite possibly more than in Alberta — Apache Canada reported what it called «the most prolific shale gas resource test in the world» in B.C.'s Liard Basin a year ago — but at today's prices it's not worth drilling for.

According to the Energy Information Administration's (EIA) most recent report on drilling productivity, total U.S. shale oil output is expected to climb above 6 million barrels a day for the first time in September.

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

This is a province with enough environmental mettle to turn its back on drilling for potentially rich shale gas reserves in the St. Lawrence Valley.

After eliciting an admission from the agent that Mammoth believed it had discovered a substantial shale oil deposit suitable for fracking, Farmer drove a hard bargain for the drilling rights.

That could weigh on the prices that Permian shale drillers receive for their product.

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.

A similar program in Ohio shows teachers how to «frack» Twinkies using straws to pump for cream and advises on the curriculum for a charter school that revolves around shale drilling.

OPEC on Wednesday raised its forecast for non-member oil supply this year to almost double the growth predicted four months ago as higher prices spur U.S. shale drilling, offsetting OPEC - led output cuts and a collapse Continue Reading

First up is a greenlight on a drilling campaign in Argentina's Vaca Muerta shale, the first major investment for Total in several years and the first of 10 projects that will move forward.

However, oil prices have been dropping like hot potatoes, almost 30 %, and with that energy stocks are tanking in unison and singing songs with same tune, along with drilling and exploration companies for shale oil or natural gas.

Johannes Teyssen, chief executive of Eon, said there were no obvious options for Europe to narrow the US advantage — whether by drilling for shale gas, importing more liquefied natural gas or importing inexpensive US supplies.

The crash in prices meant that shale drillers moved on to greener pastures, and most of them began looking for oil rather than gas because crude fetched $ 70 to $ 80 per barrel.

UNP transports the materials needed to drill for shale oil and then transports the oil back.

The Energy Information Administration (EIA) released another EIA Drilling Activity report that raised its estimates for shale oil production without considering the realities on the ground.

In a similar move, Total SA (TOT) purchased 25 % of Chesapeake Energy's (CHK) Barnett shale operations, in a move widely seen as a way for Chesapeake to maintain its drilling budgets in that basin and elsewhere.

The outage of key oil ports have disrupted shipments, leaving Texas shale drillers without a destination for their crude.

West Texas - based Concho's stock tumbled as it bought rival shale driller RSP for $ 8 bln.

Christian environmental groups have criticised the Church of England's stance on fracking, a controversial method of drilling for shale gas that has been linked by some anti-fracking organisations to water contamination.

Christian environmental groups have criticised the Church of England's stance on fracking, a controversial method of drilling for shale gas that has been... More

But with the possible start to drilling for natural gas in the Marcellus shale formation of the Southern Tier, Libous — who supports the use of hydraulic fracturing — said more information is needed.

A ban on drilling for underground shale gas, otherwise known as fracking, has been lifted, the energy secretary has announced.

New York hasn't issued permits for shale gas wells using horizontal drilling and fracking since it began its review of the controversial technology in 2008.

Ms. Teachout is against fracking — the drilling into shale for gas — which she called «a threat to the water supply.»

It involves drilling horizontally into shale formations, then injecting the rock with sand, water, and a cocktail of chemicals to free the trapped gas for removal.

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.

This week Saudi Arabia announced that it wants to drill test wells for shale gas.

«Saudi Arabia wants to drill test wells for shale gas even though it is short of water needed for fracking»

A new environmental review from New York State details some of the issues surrounding drilling for natural gas in the Marcellus shale

The EPA has the authority to issue permits for such discharges, but current rules allow shale gas drillers to pass their waste through public sewage plants even if those plants are not equipped to remove pollutants.

From Anhui to Xinjiang Chinese companies have begun to drill into the earth for shale gas.

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Drilling for shale gas may pose a safety hazard if there are water wells nearby.

China is drilling ahead for shale gas, but the country faces economic, environmental and geologic challenges in tapping the resource

In Romania, two proposals — opening Europe's largest open - cast gold mine and drilling for shale gas — drew thousands of protesters.

Shale Network for the past six years has fostered a dialogue about shale drilling between concerned citizens, watershed groups, government regulators and personnel from large energy companies by focusing on publicly available water quality data.

Their range of 2.3 - 7.7 % loss, with a best guess of 4 %, is slightly higher than Cornell's estimate of 2.2 - 3.8 % for shale - gas drilling and production.

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.

The required additional fossil fuels will involve exploitation of tar sands, tar shale, hydrofracking for oil and gas, coal mining, drilling in the Arctic, Amazon, deep ocean, and other remote regions, and possibly exploitation of methane hydrates.

There are a lot of people that work drilling for natural gas, there is coal, and oil shale.

(Already, with the surge of drilling for abundant oil and gas in shale deposits, there's much talk of whether we can sustain research and investment in non-fossil energy options.)

It is appalling that while the federal government is pushing offshore oil drilling and mountaintop - removal coal mining, proposing to strip - mine shale oil and tar sands and to dramatically expand the production of high - level nuclear waste, they have declared a two - year moratorium on new solar electric power plants on public lands — which have some of the best solar energy resources in the world — for «environmental reasons».

New York State appears to be further slowing its effort to produce rules governing fracking, shorthand for the suite of drilling methods used to extract natural gas from deep shale deposits.

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.

New York officials crafting policy to regulate shale gas drilling amid unanswered health concerns will likely re-open the process to public hearings, essentially guaranteeing more momentum for the movement that has effectively stalled the industry's advancement into the Empire State for more than four years.

At the premiere of Fox's antifracking sequel on Sunday, a batch of ticket holders — mostly landowners from the Marcellus shale region who support gas drilling, but including McAleer — was blocked from entering the theater (see the Artsbeat blog post for Tribeca's dubious explanation).