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Shale oil is oil that can be extracted from shale by mining a shale that is saturated with oil and roasting it at about 500 degrees Celsius to extract the oil.

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The LNG Canada and Kitimat LNG projects, as well as a fourth plant proposed for the northern B.C. coast by Malaysian state energy company Petronas and Calgary - based Progress Energy, will likely have to wait for new pipelines to be built directly from the shale gas fields of northeastern B.C. Kitimat LNG's owners are separately developing the Pacific Trails pipeline to their terminal.

It encompasses aging projects in the North Sea, factory - like shale fields from Texas to Pennsylvania, and, oh, by the way, 43,000 gas stations ringing the planet — a larger retail network than that of either McDonald's (mcd) or Starbucks (sbux) x.

The pipeline, being built by a group of companies led by Energy Transfer Partners LP, would be the first to bring Bakken shale from North Dakota directly to refineries on the U.S. Gulf Coast.

The companies say the pipeline would carry Bakken shale oil more cheaply and safely from North Dakota to Illinois en route to U.S. Gulf Coast refineries than it could be shipped by railroad or tanker trucks.

The report said gas from shale formations increased world natural gas resources by 47 percent to 22,882 trillion cubic feet.

The report from the International Energy Agency (IEA), a Paris - based think tank, is a thumping endorsement for the shale sector's resilience in the face of a two - year attempt by Saudi Arabia and others to squeeze it.

The 1,100 - mile (1770.28 - km) pipeline, being built by a group of companies led by Energy Transfer Partners, would be the first to bring Bakken shale from North Dakota directly to refineries on the U.S. Gulf Coast.

Protesters have been buoyed by the recent success of Native American groups and environmentalists in their campaign against construction of the 1,100 - mile (1,770 - km) Dakota Access pipeline, a project spearheaded by Energy Transfer Partners (etp) that would carry oil from North Dakota's Bakken shale fields into Texas.

That's why Valero Energy Corp., the largest independent U.S. refiner, is planning to own 9,000 new rail cars by year end to bring in crude from Canada and the U.S.'s equally clogged shale oilfields to processing facilities.

Fuel prices have been in a downtrend since June, losing nearly 50 percent of their value, on the back of a price war waged by OPEC (the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries) against the U.S. shale producers and as demand from China decreased amid slowing growth.

Output from major shale oil regions will grow by 131,000 barrels a day in April, the Department of Energy predicts.»

Unconventional gas development (UGD), characterized by advances in engineering, including horizontal drilling and high volume hydraulic fracturing, enables extraction of large amounts of fossil fuel from shale deposits at depths that were previously unapproachable [1].

The extraordinary cost reductions achieved by North American oil and gas companies have likely reached their limit, and any boost in profitability for much of the U.S. shale and Canadian oil sands industries will have to come from higher oil prices, according to a new report from Moody's Investors Service.

He's also chairman of a $ 26 million fund, BH Logistics, established in April with backing from a Chinese conglomerate, and a $ 40 million fund involved in shale oil exploration, according to documents filed in June and first reported on by Bloomberg News.

The boom in unconventional fuels — such as bitumen extracted from Alberta's tar sands and oil extracted from North Dakota's Bakken shale formation by hydraulic fracturing («fracking»)-- has swelled global reserves even as climate scientists issue ever - sterner warnings that burning more than a small fraction of these reserves would be suicidal.

Shaken by shale oil production in the United States, softening demand from China and Europe, and rising global concern about climate change, Canada's tar...

A final investment decision has been made to move forward with a 1.9 Bcf / d pipeline being jointly developed by Kinder Morgan, DCP Midstream and Targa Resources that would allow more shale gas to move from the Permian Basin to the Texas Gulf Coast after the project secured long - term shipper commitments for about 85 % of its capacity, the companies said Thursday.

The pipelines are expected to boost output from shale fields in the three states by giving producers access to new domestic and international markets.

Gas is easier to produce than oil from shale and other «tight» rocks, and by 2040 the EIA expects US production to be 56 per cent higher than in 2012.

China has cut resources tax on shale gas production by 30 percent from April 1, the Ministry of Finance said on Tuesday, as the world's largest energy consumer aims to Continue Reading

In the September 2013 Quarterly Report we wrote that, by 2015, increasing production from US shale oil would be «easily absorbed by an estimated incremental demand of 4 million barrels from non-OECD countries over the same time frame».

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«While oil could appreciate further if the U.S. withdraws from the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, gains are likely to remain limited by robust production from U.S. shale,» he wrote.

However, bullish optimism could be contained by rising production from U.S. shale refineries and growing criticism from the Trump administration over oil's inflated value.

But in a major shift away from the previous Saudi - led policy of maintaining production to squeeze high - cost US shale - oil producers, OPEC countries agreed to target a lower level of 32.5 — 33.0 million barrels a day, although there was some skepticism about the absence of details on which members would curb output and by how much, which were delayed until the next meeting in November.

The fraction of crude oil consumed in the U.S. that was imported went from 35 % immediately before the 1973 oil crisis, peaked at 60 % in 2005, and then returned to 35 % by 2013 [7] thanks to increased domestic production [8] from the shale oil boom.

The downstate region, dominated by New York City, has been growing much faster than upstate (everything north of the metropolitan transportation district)-- and the slowest growing upstate metro areas are in Central New York and the Southern Tier, which would benefit most from the issuance of long - delayed state regulations allowing the use of hydraulic fracturing in shale gas production.

Many local towns and cities have expressed opposition to the project, citing the local dangers of pipeline leaks and wider implications of fracking (the oil bound for the Pilgrim Pipeline originates from the Bakken shale in North Dakota, the same deposits that have increased the volume of oil carried by trains and barges through the Hudson Valley to New Jersey refineries).

The oldest settled - site in southern Ulster county can be found at the corner of church and mulberry by evidence of the trench in shale leading from the cellar house to what is now a blasted out road with pavement.

Hydrofracking is a controversial method of extracting natural gas from under shale deposits by shooting chemical - laced water deep into the earth.

Hydrofracking is the process of extracting natural gas from shale rock by blasting a mix of water and chemicals at high pressure into underground wells.

Extracting gas from deep shale deposits by fracturing the rock using a high - pressure mix of water, sand and chemicals is a hot topic.

«By measuring naturally occurring ammonium and iodide in numerous samples from different geological formations in the Appalachian Basin, including flowback waters from shale gas wells in the Marcellus and Fayetteville shale formations, we show that fracking fluids are not much different from conventional oil and gas wastes,» said Jennifer S. Harkness, lead author of the study and a PhD student at Duke's Nicholas School of the Environment.

Biologist Sonja Wedmann, then at the Institute of Paleontology at the University of Bonn, analyzed the fossil after it was dug up from oil shale deposits in what was once a small lake formed by volcanic activity.

There is relatively less interest in power - to - gas in the U.S., where hydrogen from electrolysis, even by taking advantage of cheap excess renewable energy, would have a tough time competing against abundant, low - cost shale gas.

While I appreciate that Peter Aldhous's article was primarily concerned with the immediate health questions raised by the process of fracking, or cracking rock to extract natural gas from shale beds (28 January, p 8), its effects on climate change can not be ignored since that, too, is likely to be bad for our health.

The study by Miller and her colleagues is believed to be the first head - to - head comparison of coal and shale gas from the resource extraction phase through electricity generation.

As some of the incentives for fracking come from the lower carbon emissions produced by gas - fired power stations, a key question is whether the extraction of shale gas has an additional impact on greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.

The fossils come from black shales originally disturbed by road works at Waterloo Farm.

COVER Natural gas extracted from a deep shale formation by hydraulic fracturing («fracking») technology burns at a well in Bradford County, Pennsylvania.

One reason Maugeri's forecast is so high is that he assumes production from existing shale wells will decline by just 15 per cent per year.

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.

Of the 6 mb / d increase in global oil production between 2006 and 2014, almost a fifth came from the Canadian tar sands, and the rest from the US «shale oil revolution» driven by fracking.

Thanks to a bonanza of natural gas liberated from deep shales by new techniques, the U.S. is burning more and more of the fuel — and considering using more natural gas in more places, such as fuel for trucking.

The Ohio samples are being analyzed by UC researchers for concentrations of methane as well as other hydrocarbons and salt, which is pulled up in the fracking water mixture from the shales.

Natural gas is extracted from shale plays by a process called hydraulic fracturing, more commonly known as «fracking.»

This has happened in part because much of the Northeast relies on readily available hydropower from Canada and rapidly expanding natural - gas - fired electricity generation made possible by cheap natural gas from newly exploited shale deposits in Pennsylvania.

However, the stark reality is that global emissions have accelerated (Fig. 1) and new efforts are underway to massively expand fossil fuel extraction [7]--[9] by drilling to increasing ocean depths and into the Arctic, squeezing oil from tar sands and tar shale, hydro - fracking to expand extraction of natural gas, developing exploitation of methane hydrates, and mining of coal via mountaintop removal and mechanized long - wall mining.

The shale gas production boom took off after 2010, when the U.S. dollar embarked on a multi-year uptrend that was supported by an exodus from the euro during the sovereign debt crisis and a marked slowdown of capital flows to emerging markets.