fracking | Egypt Oil & Gas - Part 2
UK’s Third Energy Applies for Gas Fracking Permission
Independent oil and gas producer Third Energy has lodged an application for hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, at a shale gas site in northeast England, the third such application being assessed by British authorities...
US Shale Oil Firms: Refracking Not Best Path in Downturn
Refracking, the practice of fracking an oil and gas well a second time, is still too unpredictable to rely on as a way to slash costs and increase output during the oil price slump, top U.S. shale oil executives said ...
Bill to Give State Full Authority Over Fracking in Texas Closer to Law
A bill giving Texas the sole right to regulate the oil and gas industry and take away the power of municipalities to pass anti-fracking rules moved a step closer to becoming law on Monday after it passed the Senate. T...
Fracking Update: Clean Geothermal Power from Water Waste
Oil fracking companies seeking to improve their image and pull in a little extra cash are turning their waste water into clean geothermal power. For every barrel of oil produced from a well, there’s another seven of w...
US Shale Drillers Plan Strategy
American oil drillers, battered and bruised by the steep drop in crude prices, are descending on Houston this week to plan their survival. Thousands of industry executives gather in Texas every year for IHS CERAWeek, ...
China Hopes for US Style Shale Oil Boom
In the coming decade, China’s natural gas market is expected to undergo robust growth fueled by a number of environmental and economic drivers. A much discussed natural gas strategy for China is to develop its s...
UK Concerns Rise Over Proposed Fracking Regulations
Anti-fracking campaigners have accused the shale industry of wanting companies “to be allowed to mark their own homework” by suggesting independent checks on wells could be done in-house. A report by the R...
US Businessmen, Politicians Up in Arms Over First Ever Fracking Rules
U.S. drillers already reeling from a six-month drop in oil prices denounced new U.S. fracking regulations as costly and unnecessary, and quickly met them with a lawsuit. After three years of debate, the U.S. Interior ...
