Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 11, 2022

At this stage, ending the ban on shale exploration means allowing companies already holding licenses to begin seeking permission to conduct exploration work. He has also since opened a new licensing round for oil and gas companies in the North Sea, on 7 October.

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Energy Central

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

What’s behind the rise in US shale gas production? Since the pandemic, US gas and oil production have taken different trajectories: oil has not fully recovered, but gas is setting fresh highs. Of course the first-order answer to “Why is gas production rising” is simply “prices are.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 22, 2020

oil and gas industry is having to deal with years of losses and falling asset values which has dealt the industry a serious financial blow. This is despite the fracking revolution delivering record oil and gas production for the past decade, peaking in 2019. Read time: 16 mins After over a decade of the much-hyped U.S.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

APRIL 12, 2024

Ralf Oppermann is a Geoscientist and Technical Advisor with 34 years of experience, obtained working for Shell and Chevron and multiple other Oil & Gas, Mining and Geothermal companies.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

It was announced on Wednesday (31 January) that Deltic Energy had been awarded the new licences in the latest North Sea oil and gas licensing round. The Guardian and the Good Law Project also revealed today that EnQuest Heather, a subsidiary of EnQuest, had been awarded a new oil and gas licence. percent (£4.5

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

Read time: 8 mins As oil prices plummet, oil bankruptcies mount , and investors shun the shale industry, America’s top oil field — the Permian shale that straddles Texas and New Mexico — faces many new challenges that make profits appear more elusive than ever for the financially failing shale oil industry.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Oil and gas investors are anticipating hefty dividend checks to close out 2021. Following a decade of red ink — capped by a devastating 2020 when oil prices briefly went negative — fracking-focused companies finally made some money this year. And each year, the EIA predicts rosy prospects for the nation’s oil and gas output.

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TechXplore

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

The current understanding of the oil generation potential of oil shale and the dynamic process of organic matter pyrolysis is still unclear, leading to the relatively slow progress in its development technology.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 28, 2020

Fracking operations at a site in Blackpool, UK, have caused an unintended release of methane gas into the atmosphere to the equivalent environmental cost of 142 trans-Atlantic flights according to new research. Operations at the Preston New Road shale gas site led to a venting of around 4.2 km deep shale gas well.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 18, 2020

If you’ve driven through an area where companies extract oil and gas from shale formations, you’ve probably seen flames dancing at the tops of vertical pipes. That’s flaring — the mostly uncontrolled practice of burning off a byproduct of oil and gas production. Over the past 10 years, the U.S.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

MARCH 22, 2024

Although the event was still heavily dominated by oil and gas, the topic of geothermal came up multiple times as a potential pathway for transition for oil and gas companies and professionals. Just a few weeks ago, Fervo announced the closing of a $244-million funding round , led by shale oil and gas company Devon Energy.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 8, 2024

Fossil fuel giants BP and Shell were given “ample opportunity” to privately influence proposals for taxing oil and gas companies that were later backed by the government, new documents reveal. McGuire believes that a carbon tax is “ultimately just another form of greenwashing and a sop to the [oil] sector’s critics”.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

UK-based geothermal development company CeraPhi Energy has acquired the business of Third Energy Limited, a former shale gas development company with plans to repurpose the existing wells into clean geothermal energy centres. km of 6-inch and 16.6 km of 3-inch subterranean pipelines and a further 22.4

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 16, 2021

That was the recent assessment of Saudi Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman of the American oil industry’s future potential. As Saudi Arabia’s energy minister , Prince Abdulaziz is one of the most influential voices in the global oil markets. frackers to not increase oil production. Shale oil’s era of growth appears to be over.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 10, 2021

After the shale oil and gas industry lost a half trillion dollars in what the Wall Street Journal recently called the “ unprofitable American oil boom ” and investors started fleeing, the U.S. shale industry’s “new religion,” which is supposed to convince investors to have faith in shale. .

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 5, 2021

But the question is whether the industry will listen — or continue to gamble with shale gas and oil. Tags: shale fracking Read time: 10 mins Energy companies are increasingly having to face the unprofitable reality of fracking, and some executives are now starting to admit that publicly.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 3, 2021

Read time: 13 mins A groundbreaking four-part report by Environmental Health News ( EHN ) offers new scientific evidence that living near oil and gas development can expose people to a wide array of hazardous and carcinogenic chemicals — not just those living near shale drilling and fracking, but also those living near older conventional oil and gas (..)

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 14, 2024

The Australian firm currently lobbies in the UK on behalf of mining company Ferrexpo, which says it is “at the forefront of strategic oil and gas investments that drive both financial prosperity and sustainable energy solutions.” Hayes has in the past supported the controversial practice of fracking for shale gas.

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R-Squared Energy

JANUARY 28, 2024

set a new oil production record in 2023 and became the world’s top liquefied natural gas exporter. set a natural gas production record in 2023, but that it wouldn’t be certain until the Energy Information Administration released the final numbers sometime in 2024. Annual Change in Natural Gas Production 2020 through 2023.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 15, 2021

Read time: 17 mins On December 21, 2020, environmental crimes investigators in the western Argentine province of Neuquén carried out a raid against a company that handles fracking waste in the heart of the Vaca Muerta shale basin, a booming oil and gas field in northern Patagonia.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 20, 2019

shale oil and gas firms are now moving from a boom in fracking to a boom in bankruptcies. Tags: oil and gas cleanup well bonding EP Energy Eagle Ford Shale fracking finances bankruptcies Independent Petroleum Association of America Read time: 9 mins In over their heads with debt, U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 12, 2019

Argentina has some of the largest natural gas and oil reserves in the world and “possibly the most prospective outside of North America,” according to the U.S. shale revolution, most experts put Argentina pretty high on that list. Energy Information Administration. While the U.S. While the U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 22, 2021

The outlook is increasingly bleak for oil and gas companies. Eight oil and gas companies announced they were filing for bankruptcy during the first quarter of 2021. Meanwhile, earlier this month The Financial Times noted that of 500 privately owned oil and gas companies in the U.S., US energy indep.

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Renew Economy

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

The biggest of all may be that the oil and gas reserves are long gone. The post Fracking: If Liz Truss wants a UK shale gas industry, she is 280 million years late appeared first on RenewEconomy. Fracking in the UK has multiple commercial, technical and social challenges.

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R-Squared Energy

MARCH 23, 2024

oil production record and establishment of the U.S. as the world’s top liquefied natural gas (LNG) exporter, this week the Energy Information Administration reported that the U.S. exported a record amount of crude oil in 2023. has exported small amounts of crude oil for over 100 years, despite being a net importer of crude oil.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 17, 2022

It called for the government to reverse its 2019 moratorium on hydraulic fracturing — known as fracking — to “enable shale gas developments”, arguing this would provide “cheap local energy” during the cost of living crisis.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 20, 2020

This is also home to the Eagle Ford shale, where domestic oil and gas production has boomed. shale play , producing more than 1.2 million barrels of oil daily in 2019, up from fewer than 350,000 barrels per day just a decade earlier. Tags: environmental racism flaring Eagle Ford Shale public health

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Energy Central

JULY 7, 2023

Summary Sept 28, 2022, the Dallas Fed surveyed 153 oil companies. 85% expect a significant tightening of oil supplies in 2024. "Shale will likely tip over in five years, and U.S. production will be down 20 to 30 percent quickly" Supply issues will drive oil and gas prices much higher in 2024.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 25, 2020

Read time: 6 mins New research based on satellite data confirms that the oil and gas industry in the Permian region of Texas and New Mexico is leaking record amounts of methane. percent of the total methane produced by the oil and gas industry there. percent of all natural gas produced from shale in the U.S.

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R-Squared Energy

JANUARY 1, 2024

oil production has increased by 21% over the past five years. oil producers set a new annual production record. oil production, and how much production has changed over the past five years. oil production, and how much production has changed over the past five years. Top 11 Oil-Producing States in 2023.

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Energy Central

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

The Shale Revolution improved upon technologies the oil and natural gas industry had been using for decades and enabled a transition from energy scarcity to energy security, reduced emissions, lowered prices and helped entice manufacturing and other investments across the country.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Lloyds Banking Group has announced that it will no longer directly finance the development of new oil and gas projects, in a first for a UK bank. Coal liquefaction as well as any finance involving onshore oil and gas and shale fracking will also be banned moving forward.

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R-Squared Energy

JULY 27, 2022

Oil Demand Bounces Back. For 2020, the Review reported the largest decline in oil 1 consumption on record. After nine consecutive years of increase, the Covid-19 pandemic caused global consumption of crude oil to decline by more than 9% in 2020. The United States remains the world’s top oil consumer, averaging 18.7

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 21, 2020

where the climate benefits of coal power plant retirements were undermined by the rise of natural gas. smashed global records for the production of oil and gas — two of the three fossil fuels most responsible for the ongoing climate crisis. In that time, the U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 18, 2024

On energy, she calls for more fossil fuel extraction, advocating a mix of “oil and gas as well as nuclear and renewables”, adding: “The use of North Sea oil and gas is crucial, so there needs to be investment in that too. There also should be fracking in the UK.”

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 17, 2023

billion liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal in her Pennsylvania hometown, she will be facing off against some of the most powerful fossil fuel interests in the United States. Texas and Louisiana produced record amounts of shale gas last year, which U.S. LNG companies shipped to Europe at soaring premiums.

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R-Squared Energy

DECEMBER 13, 2021

The shale oil boom that began about 15 years ago enabled the fastest growth of oil and natural gas production in U.S. Prior to the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic, the shale boom even enabled the U.S. The shale boom was enabled by the marriage of two technologies: Horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing.

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