The UK MPs have voted to legalize fracking for extraction of shale gas trapped in underground shale rocks some 1,200m below national parks to offset declining North Sea oil and gas output, Reuters reported. The fracki...
Indonesia is forging ahead with its strategy of developing unconventional sources of oil and gas, announcing bids for three new shale gas blocks, according to information issued by the ministry of energy and mines, re...
Apache has completed the necessary studies to research and explore shale gas in the Obayyed field in the Western Desert for the first time in Egypt, reported Egypt Daily News. The company is also working on an evaluat...
Royal Dutch Shell and the Egyptian General Petroleum Corporation (EGPC) are in discussions over the price of shale gas that will be produced in the Al-Abyad area for the first time in Egypt, reported Daily News Egypt....
Politics over energy supplies and trade is increasingly influencing relations between nations around the world and Pakistan is no exception. The United States has given a new suggestion, asking Pakistan to go for expl...
In February 2016, Egypt will witness its first shale gas production on the hands of Royal Dutch Shell and American Apache, reported Daily News Egypt. Production will be made from the Apollonia field in the Western Des...
The meteoric rise in U.S. oil production has ended, easing a global glut and driving a rebound in crude prices from below $50 a barrel, according to crude trader and hedge fund manager Andrew J. Hall. Oil production f...
Saudi Basic Industries Corp 2010.SE has signed a deal to use shale gas from the United States at its Teesside petrochemical plant in Britain, acting chief executive Yousef Abdullah al-Benyan told Reuters on Sunday. ...
China National Offshore Oil Corp (Cnooc) has decided to shelve its shale gas project in Anhui province in the latest sign that the shale gas revolution that transformed the US energy industry is unlikely to replicate ...
Natural gas output from the Haynesville deposit in Louisiana, which lost the crown as the nation’s biggest source of gas from shale two years ago, is growing again as drilling costs decline. Chesapeake Energy Corp., t...