Sentences with phrase «shale oil regions»
Output from major shale oil regions will grow by 131,000 barrels a day in April, the Department of Energy predicts.»
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The February 2016 map shows a big increase in unemployment in shale - heavy regions, reflecting the prior year of falling oil prices.
Although the Permian has been gushing crude since the 1920s, its multiple layers of oil - soaked shale remained largely untapped until the last several years, when intensive drilling and fracturing techniques perfected in other U.S. Shale regions were adopted.
His travels took him on a whirlwind sojourn, from the massive shale gas deposit in the Marcellus Formation to Alberta's remote oil sands region, helping his readers build life - changing wealth every step of the way.
NEW ORLEANS U.S. oil producer Devon Energy Corp said on Monday it was looking to sell even more assets than previously announced in order to focus its portfolio on three shale regions.
Even the argument over fracking in Ohio's oil shale region plays to Romney, although the Obama administration has made only the subtlest moves against oil shale fracking.
Increased water use in the rapidly growing oil industry in North Dakota's Bakken oil shale region, or play, is surprisingly due not only to oil well development but also to people, according to a recent study by the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory.
U.S. oil producers, especially in shale plays across the region, are likely crossing their fingers t...
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.
For example, if one models the cretaceous period, one should better be able to identify the regions where oil shale will have formed.
The Democratic governor of Missouri, Jay Nixon, announced this week that he favors construction of the Keystone XL pipeline to bring crude from the Canadian oil sands and our own Bakken shale region to refineries along the Gulf Coast.
About 40 percent of the oil and gas wells in parts of the Marcellus shale region will probably be leaking methane into the groundwater or into the atmosphere, concludes a Cornell - led research team that examined the records of more than 41,000 such wells in Pennsylvania.
It's also an economic dynamo; shale natural gas and oil projects in just one region, the Marcellus shale, were responsible for more than 72 million man hours 5 of direct and indirect labor construction hours from 2008 through the first half of 2014.
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.
$ 1 million unconventional oil and gas research program, which gathers critical data on the extreme impacts of fossil fuel development in the Marcellus and Bakken shale regions.
According to a report released by the University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign, oil and natural gas projects related to the Marcellus shale region from 2008 through the first half of 2014 were responsible for more than 72 million man hours of direct and indirect labor construction.
With Tunisians protesting Shell's shale gas plans and Jordanians set to finalise a deal to build the region's first oil shale plant by the end of the year, it seems that the region is buying into shale.
Past efforts to get at the region's oil shale have involved strip - mining, a technique that proved both environmentally destructive and prohibitively expensive.