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KKR to Buy WPX Energy's Fields
Tulsa :: OK :: USA | 1 year ago
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KKR & Co. has agreed to buy natural-gas fields in Texas and Oklahoma for $306 million as the private-equity firm continues an energy patch spending spree that has seen it commit billions of dollars to oil and gas producing properties. KKR said Monday
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Health impact studies taking hold, with challenges
Albany :: NY :: USA | 1 year ago
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Health advocates say New York regulators are not paying enough attention to public health concerns as they focus on the environmental impact of shale gas development. They want to see a health impact assessment similar to those conducted on major
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Estimate a blow to Poland's shale gas ambitions
Warsaw :: Poland | 1 year ago
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Video Video But until recently, hopes had been that the reserves would be many times larger. A U.S. estimate last year put them at about 5.3 trillion cubic meters. Shale gas is located underground across the European continent, from France to Ukraine,
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South Africa debates whether to allow fracking
Johannesburg :: South Africa | 1 year ago
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It is beautiful, desperately poor and is now the new frontline in the global battle over a hugely controversial drilling practice called "fracking"...But the country is not sure whether to allow the gas to be extracted by fracking...The amount of gas
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Schools checking for gas, oil below
Wooster :: OH :: USA | 1 year ago
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The state has told public universities and community colleges in the path of Ohio's drilling boom to figure out how much of the oil- and gas-rich Utica shale lies below their campuses. These property inventories are required by a new state law that
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Energy Stocks: Atlas Resource rallies as energy stocks recoup
Arp :: TX :: USA | 1 year ago
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Peabody Energy , a 2.8% advance by Noble Corp. and a 2.7% rise by Alpha Natural Resources . On the deal front, Atlas Resources Partners rallied 24% after it said it would pay $190 million cash for 312 billion cubic feet equivalent of reserves in the
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Five more air monitors going up near DFW gas well sites
Arlington :: TX :: USA | 1 year ago
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In response to public health concerns about natural gas drilling emissions in the Barnett Shale, five additional air monitors will be installed near North Texas well sites in the coming months. The Texas Commission for Environmental Quality
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Market Extra: Fracking makes for sunny times in sand
China :: TX :: USA | 1 year ago
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Strong demand for sand used in hydraulic fracturing is heating up the business of providing the grainy material to energy companies. Pioneer Natural Resources plunked down nearly $300 million to buy the U.S. sand business of Carmeuse Holding S.A.
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Barnett Shale still thrives despite downturn
Fort Worth :: TX :: USA | 1 year ago
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Tell us Natural gas prices have been falling for almost four years, and the number of drilling rigs in the Barnett Shale is near a seven-year low. Yet Tarrant County has never had more oil and gas workers, and production in the Barnett hit a record
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DFW governments adjust to life after the Barnett Shale boom
Fort Worth :: TX :: USA | 1 year ago
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Tell us Local governments, bolstered by more than $1 billion from the Barnett Shale over the past four years, are adjusting to diminished windfalls as the lowest natural gas prices in a decade have slowed drilling and reduced royalties. Fort Worth
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