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Industry turns to GasClam® to assess Shale Gas hydrofracking impact
Industry turns to GasClam to assess Shale Gas hydrofracking impact Shale gas drilling is the hot topic around the world, currently being assessed to secure fuel supplies, whilst investigating it’s environmental impact and any potential fluid contamination from the hydrofracking process. GasClam® is the only product that can collect in-situ, continuous ground gas data and is becoming ...
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Amerisafe Announces Professional Marcellus Shale Safety Consulting Services
Amerisafe Consulting & Safety Services, a leading safety consulting company specializing in job site safety management in a vast array of industries, announces the addition of Marcellus Shale Safety to their safety consulting services. “Amerisafe Consulting & Safety Services has gained its reputation for professional safety consulting, safety management and safety training to ...
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Chevron meets new, voluntary shale drilling rules
Chevron has become the first energy company to meet a new set of voluntary shale gas drilling standards that aim to go beyond existing state laws in Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia, the Pittsburgh-based Center for Sustainable Shale announced Thursday. The center is a partnership between major energy companies, environmental groups and charitable foundations. Its certification process ...
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Infocast`s Optimizing Shale Oil & Gas Wells Conference
Infocast brings the first ever Optimizing Shale Oil & Gas Wells conference from June 27-29, 2011 to the Renaissance Denver Hotel in Denver, CO. This groundbreaking meeting will feature nine real world case studies of cutting-edge completion strategies from today's hottest plays -- Bakken, Eagle Ford and Marcellus. This meeting is essential for all players who want to boost their current ...
By Infocast
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Neighbors bicker in Pennsylvania over forced gas drilling
An energy company is dusting off an old, unused state law that can force property owners to accept oil and gas drilling under their land, pitting neighbor against neighbor in a Pennsylvania community and raising the possibility that lawmakers will have to take sides. Houston-based Hilcorp seeks to use a 1961 Pennsylvania law to drill under the property of four holdout landowners in New Bedford, ...
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Kroff Area Manager to Serve as Featured Presenter at Upcoming Marcellus Shale Event at University of Pittsburgh
Kroff, Inc., one of the fastest-growing water treatment companies in the United States, is pleased to announce that Dave Kern, area manager for Kroff Well Services, Inc. (KWS) will serve as a presenter during an upcoming Marcellus Shale event,"Mitigating Environmental Effects from Marcellus Shale Gas Drilling Operations." The event is sponsored by the Wesley Eckenfelder Foundation, American ...
By Kroff, Inc.
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UKERC responds to the DECC announcement on shale gas exploration
The statement today by Energy and Climate Secretary Edward Davey relates to the specific issue of reducing the seismic risk associated with shale gas drilling, it should not be interpreted as a green light for wide spread commercial development of shale gas in the UK. Research carried out by the UK Energy Research Centre (UKERC) and others has shown that exploration is necessary to assess the ...
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Royal Dutch Shell forms shale exploration JV with China’s Sinopec
The Shengli Oil Field is the flagship asset of Sinopec in China, however it is struggling with declining production The new joint study venture comes in the backdrop of Chinese government’s efforts to improve domestic reserves and production by encouraging China-foreign projects The United Kingdom-based Royal Dutch Shell has reportedly announced to have inked a new deal with a ...
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Proposal would allow shale gas waste on barges
The U.S. Coast Guard is seeking public comments on a proposal that would allow barges to transport shale gas wastewater, a drilling byproduct that can include chemicals, radioactive material and heavy metals. Some states, such as Texas, have large numbers of underground wells where the wastewater can be disposed. But Pennsylvania - where a recent boom in shale gas drilling is producing tens of ...
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Flare Industries Announces the Acquisition of Jordan Technologies
Flare Industries, LLC, today announced the acquisition of Jordan Technologies, a leading supplier of vapor recovery units (VRUs) and the largest service provider for VRUs in the world market. Flare Industries (Flare), is an industry leader in design, manufacturing and installation of combustion and pollution control technology and equipment. Founded in 1980, Jordan Technologies (Jordan), is ...
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Exxon fracking report responds to shareholders
Exxon Mobil issued a report Tuesday that acknowledges the environmental risks of hydraulic fracturing but also defends the practice as being better for the environment than other types of energy production and generation. Under pressure from the corporate responsibility group As You Sow, as well as New York City Comptroller Scott Stringer and other shareholders, Exxon agreed earlier this year to ...
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Marcellus shale beneath Washington county
The commercial discovery of natural gas in the Marcellus shale beneath Washington County in 2004 has set off the biggest Pennsylvania land rush in the 150 years since Col. Edwin Drake drilled the world's first oil well in Venango County. Marcellus is a rock formation that runs a mile underground from New York through Pennsylvania and on south to Tennessee. Geologists believe the rock ...
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IEA sets out the `Golden Rules` needed to usher in a Golden Age of Gas
Exploiting the world's vast resources of unconventional natural gas holds the key to a golden age of gas, but for that to happen governments, industry and other stakeholders must work together to address legitimate public concerns about the associated environmental and social impacts. A special World Energy Outlook report on unconventional gas, Golden Rules for a Golden Age of ...
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GreenMan Technologies` Subsidiary Signs Dealer/Certified Installer Agreement With SourceOne Engine Equipment, LLC
GreenMan Technologies, Inc. ("GreenMan") (OTCQB: GMTI) (PINKSHEETS: GMTI) announced that its subsidiary, American Power Group, ("APG") has entered a multi-year Dealer/Certified Installer agreement with SourceOne Engine Equipment LLC to sell, install and service APG's products in the oil and gas drilling and shale fracking industries. SourceOne Engine Equipment LLC ("SourceOne") is headquartered ...
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Setback to clean energy future must be reversed, say NRDC
Today, the bans on offshore drilling and oil shale expire, the result of a Continuing Resolution that Congress passed last week. The moratoria include a 26-year ban on offshore drilling and a two-year moratorium on leasing land for oil shale production. Both will do nothing to advance a clean energy future for the United States, according to experts at the Natural Resources Defense Council ...
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New York to ban fracking; environmentalists cheer
Handing environmentalists a breakthrough victory, New York plans to prohibit fracking for natural gas because of what regulators say are its unexplored health risks and dubious economic benefits. New York, which overlies part of the gas-rich Marcellus Shale formation that has led to a drilling boom in Pennsylvania and other nearby states, has banned shale gas development since 2008, when the ...
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Kroff, Inc. to Offer Marcellus Shale Presentation at Upcoming Partners Through People CEO Alliance Group Meeting
Kroff, Inc., one of the fastest-growing water treatment companies in the United States, is pleased to announce that David Grottenthaler, general manager of Kroff Well Services (KWS), Inc., will serve as the keynote speaker at the next Partners Through People CEO Alliance group meeting, being held on May 18th at the LeMont Restaurant in Pittsburgh. Grottenthaler's presentation will focus on the ...
By Kroff, Inc.
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EPA selects sites in Louisiana and Texas for national study on hydraulic fracturing
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today, in keeping with the Administration’s focus on ensuring that domestic resources are leveraged safely and responsibly, announced the next steps in its congressionally mandated hydraulic fracturing study. EPA has identified seven case studies to help inform the assessment of potential impacts of hydraulic fracturing on drinking water ...
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Spirit of cooperation frays in fracking debate
After environmentalists, lawmakers and the oil industry got together last year to draft Illinois' first regulations for hydraulic fracturing, the rest was supposed to be easy. The unusual collaboration was praised as a potential model for other states and a rare example of political foes finding common ground on a complex issue. But six months after the regulations were signed into law, the ...
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