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1. Oil Producers Are Burning Enough 'Waste' Gas to Power Every Home in Texas (USA)

(News - Oil & Gas)

... whole of Texas. The phenomenon has likely only intensified since then. BLOOMBERG Fracking-Texas At industryabout.com: USA    ...

Created on 13 April 2019

2. Fully Automated Oil Fields Are Almost Here

(News - Oil & Gas)

... Prodigi uses algorithms that analyze data about the well and then automatically adjusts the pump’s rate of operation for best results. The purpose, of course, is higher fracking accuracy and therefore ...

Created on 24 August 2018

3. Increased Oil Hedging Hints At Permian Basin Production Boom (USA-Texas)

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14 March 2018. Oil hedges have become popular amongst U.S. shale drillers, who have used the financial trick to lock-in higher prices for their raw goods as barrel prices edge higher. OILPRICE.COM ...

Created on 13 March 2018

4. Permian Basin shale oil: Largest Oil And Gas Discovery Ever In The USA

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  17 November 2016. The Wolfcamp shale in the Midland Basin portion of Texas' Permian Basin province contains an estimated mean of 20 billion barrels of oil, 16 trillion cubic feet of associated natural ...

Created on 17 November 2016

5. First shipment of US fracked shale gas set to arrive in Scotland

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27 September 2016. The first ever shipment of shale gas from the US is set to arrive in Britain less than 24 hours after the Labour party vowed to ban fracking, the method by which the controversial ...

Created on 27 September 2016

6. NASA Study Nails Fracking as Source of Massive Methane 'Hot Spot'

(News - Science & Technology)

18 August 2016. An extensive airborne survey of a previously identified methane hot spot in the US Four Corners area found that just 10% of the individual observed sources contributed half of the emissions, ...

Created on 18 August 2016

7. USA newest refinery falls victim to oil price slump (North Dakota)

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  11 May 2016. The owners of a North Dakota refinery that was the first to be built in the United States since the 1970s have curtailed output and may try to sell it, the latest victim of the oil price ...

Created on 11 May 2016

8. America's Biggest Shale Gas Field Is Choking on Its Own Supply (USA)

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23 October 2015. For the first time since America’s shale boom began, the flow of natural gas from the nation’s biggest reservoir is close to dropping below year-ago levels. Output from the Marcellus ...

Created on 23 October 2015

9. Giant Gas Pipeline Next to Nuclear Power Plant Could Cause a New York 'Fukushima,' Say Experts

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... Buchanan, New York. The $1 billion pipeline would carry natural gas obtained via fracking from Appalachia to New England. VICE.COM https://news.vice.com/article/giant-gas-pipeline-next-to-nuclear-power-plant ...

Created on 22 May 2015

10. Nearly 70 houses damaged by shale gas explosions in Albania

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRV2osN1vns 14 April 2015. Nearly 70 houses were damaged by gas explosions occurred in southwestern Albania, the head of Kuman commune, Xinhua reported TREND http://en.trend.az/world/other/2379746.html ...

Created on 14 April 2015

11. Massive Dumping of Fracking Wastewater Poisons California's Water in a historical drought (USA)

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... BAY AREA http://www.nbcbayarea.com/investigations/Waste-Water-from-Oil-Fracking-Injected-into-Clean-Aquifers    ...

Created on 18 November 2014

12. In Denton, Texas, voters approve 'unprecedented' fracking ban (USA)

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13 November 2014. Voters approved bans on hydraulic fracturing in California, Ohio and Texas this week, most notably in a north Texas town at the heart of the nation's oil and gas boom. The fracking ba ...

Created on 13 November 2014

13. $4.5 Million Fine Over Leaking Fracking Waste Pit in Marcellus Shale (USA)

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... POST http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/10/07/regulators-pursue-fine-fracking_n_5945734.html    ...

Created on 26 October 2014

14. Confirmed: California Aquifers Contaminated With Billions Of Gallons of Fracking Wastewater (USA)

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11 October 2014. After California state regulators shut down 11 fracking wastewater injection wells last July over concerns that the wastewater might have contaminated aquifers used for drinking water ...

Created on 11 October 2014

15. Scientists Find ‘Direct Link’ Between Earthquakes And Fracking.

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... a process widely used in the controversial technique of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, and conventional drilling. THINK PROGRESS http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2014/09/16/3568090/direct-link-between-earthquakes-and-fracking-process ...

Created on 17 September 2014

16. Fracking may endanger groundwater in California (USA)

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30 August 2014. Fracking for oil in California happens at shallower depths than previously realized and could pose a risk to precious groundwater supplies. SF GATE http://www.sfgate.com/business/article/Fracking-may-endanger-groundwater-in-California-5719880.php ...

Created on 30 August 2014