Shale oil and gas have emerged as a viable way to boost energy supplies.
Mitchell's provides services in the Bakken shale oil and gas fields of North Dakota and Montana.
President Obama specifically mentioned clean coal, shale oil and gas as well as well bio-fuels and renewable energy.
She may have visions of an oil boom fuelled by YPF's huge recent finds of shale oil and gas.
Most major oil companies are now involved in shale oil and gas production, including Exxon Mobil, Royal Dutch Shell and BP.
It has spent the last ten years in Texas providing hydraulic fracturing equipment for the more developed US shale oil and gas industry.
Shale oil and gas is extracted using a method called fracking, but the process has been controversial because of the environmental risks associated with it.
The head of a leading engineering company has said Scotland is well placed to be at the forefront of a new European shale oil and gas industry.
For example, both plans, to some extent, embrace shale oil and gas development, which has already helped create 1.8 million U.S. jobs over the past few years.
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It is also drilling on 100, 000 acres in the Bakken shale and Niobrara shale oil and gas regions, where production has risen more than 40% in a year.
New fracking methods are transforming oil and gas extraction productivity, providing access to at least 167 shale oil and gas field deposits that are distributed among several states.
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This where shale oil and gas is leading us.
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Weir has made a number of acquisitions throughout the year to boost its presence in the booming shale oil and gas industry in the US, which now accounts for about a third of the company's revenues.
He told the Resource 2012 forum on water, food and energy scarcity that the development of shale oil and gas was "quite extraordinary", and that the world was now entering the "latest age of primary energy".
This must be why the Obama administration has seen the wisdom of clamping down on drilling, and now has about 14 different agencies looking at ways to curtail fracking of those shale oil and gas reserves.
These include cancer and immune-inflammatory biotech drug company Celgene ( CELG), pharmacy benefits manager and health information systems supplier SXC Health Solutions ( SXCI), economic, financial, and political researcher IHS Inc ( IHS), and shale oil and gas producer Continental Resources ( CLR).
The criticism Thursday came a day after two of the nation's biggest oil and gas companies made peace with some national and regional environmental groups, agreeing to go through an independent review of their shale oil and gas drilling operations in the Northeast.
From an economic perspective, the recent discoveries of abundant domestic shale oil and gas supplies may help us avoid the likelihood of an oil shock and buy us the breathing ground to plan for a more gradual transition to a more efficient post-fossil world.
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Nevermind the thousands of practicing oil and gas geologists, engineers and other professionals in the industry itself who, based on hundreds of billions of dollars in investment in shale oil and natural gas resources by their companies, obviously disagree with these two.
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It specializes in exploiting unconventional oil and shale natural gas plays within the Bakken and Three Forks formations, situated within the Williston Basin in North Dakota and Montana region.
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But as this column discussed a month ago, U.S. production is booming as new technologies unlock vast deposits of oil and gas trapped in porous shale, and oil prices remain strong.
The enormous pressure of the shale formation sends oil and gas gushing out the well when it is first fracked.
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The joint venture will provide Sinopec with know-how to produce oil and gas from shale and other unconventional basins in China.
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In this piece, we will expand that discussion to talk about how the massive production coming out of the Eagle Ford and other oil and gas shale plays in Texas are affecting the national and international supply and demand picture.
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Fracking involves injecting water, sand and some chemicals deep into the earth to crack shale rock, which frees oil and gas.
With India now producing cars and Israel developing its own natural gas and shale oil fields, it is the job of the government and business leaders to make the Europeans think long and hard about how willing they will be to alienate our consumers and businesses.
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And most of that is due to shale gas and unconventional oil wealth in U.S. areas like the Bakken in North Dakota and Montana.
The operating environment has certainly improved for Halliburton, as higher crude oil prices and new shale gas drilling projects have brought new opportunities for oil services firms.
American innovation in discovering new techniques to release oil and gas from shale has paid massive dividends to the energy sector and created thousands of new jobs in the industry.
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