Tag Archives: Hydraulic fracturing

The Rise of Green Tech To Clean Up Oil And Gas Wastes

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Drought, environmental regulation and the heavy reliance on fresh water are prompting big industrial companies, from oil and gas firms to chemical producers, to look at treating their wastewater for...

The State of the Union Focused on Fracking Gas

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President Obama paid much less attention to energy and climate in last night’s fifth State of the Union address than he did in the previous four, highlighting only two specific initiatives: natural-...

Exploiting Unconventional Oil Fields Need Overcoming of Tough Logistics Challenges

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Unconventional oil and gas production is a huge factor in the US.  “Unconventionals” – which include shale gas, shale oil, and tight gas sands – accounted for over 8.5 trillion cubic feet of...

Better To Export Natural Gas Fracking Or Advanced Coal Technologies?

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World leaders are about to gather in Abu Dhabi to discuss how to feed the global energy appetite with the cleanest fuels and the most modern tools. Questions are bound to crop up involving whether to...
    






Best Of FORBES: The Polar Vortex, 30 Under 30 And Self-Driving Cars

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“The polar vortex gripping the nation has brought a crazy week for natural gas. On Monday the demand for gas nationwide hit a record 125 billion cubic feet as homeowners and power generators sought...
    






Anatomy of an NPR Hatchet Job, Target: Oil & Gas

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“On-The-Job Deaths Spiking As Oil Drilling Quickly Expands” screams a supposed National Public Radio exposé on the “terrible price” we’re paying for the fracking revolution that has transformed the...
    






The Weekly Oil & Gas Follies

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The Weekly Oil and Gas Follies – Volume 27, January 6, 2014   In which we drill down into the @GDBlackmon Twitter feed to briefly chronicle the week’s silliness, foibles, fake news and real news...
    






Hurrah! The European Union Will Not Be Regulating Fracking For Natural Gas

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One of the worries that we over here in Europe have had is that the European Union will decide to regulate the practice of fracking for natural gas. No, this isn’t because we believe (nor that I...
    






Back Off: 12 Energy State Governors Tell Feds On Hydraulic Fracturing Regs

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Signaling concern that sweeping federal regulations could cripple companies using hydraulic fracturing to extract oil and gas from shale in their states, governors from 12 energy states signed an...