For the third year in a row, some ExxonMobil shareholders want a vote on a proposal requiring the Irving, Texas, company to report its progress on limiting the environmental damage and community impact of hydraulic fracturing. New York ...
Global demand for pumps is forecast to rise 6.4 percent per year through 2016 to $76.1 billion. Although growth will be healthy across the globe (spurred by recovery from the recent economic downturn), the drivers of growth will vary by ...
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In 2011, the United States became the world’s largest producer of natural gas, growing by 7.7% between 2010 and 2011. That represented the largest volumetric increase in the world, according to BP’s Statistical Review of World ...
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UK-based IGas Energy has successfully completed a share placing announced earlier Tuesday. A total of 24,330,730 new ordinary shares were sold at the placing price of GBP0.95 ($1.52) with new and existing institutional investors, it said in ...
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A key Democratic senator on Thursday reiterated his concerns that a study commissioned by the US Department of Energy on LNG exports is "seriously flawed" and should not be used by the agency to grant permits to companies wishing to ship ...
Bloomberg reported that Austrian steelmaker Voestalpine AG said on December 19 it may construct a EUR 500 million factory in the US to benefit from cheap gas. Nucor Corp also plans to start up a USD 750 million Louisiana project in mid ...
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The US Environmental Protection Agency said it has analyzed water samples from four shale plays across the country, but released no test results or preliminary conclusions Friday when it issued a progress report on its investigation of the ...
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Fiber-monitoring system to observe hydraulic fracturing - better known as "fracking" - operations in oil and shale gas prospecting. QinetiQ company OptaSense has signed a global commercialisation and framework agreement with oil giant ...
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The power, refining and oil and gas industries will combine to purchase pumps, valves, instrumentation, filters, clarifiers, separators scrubbers, dust collectors and other air and liquid treatment equipment totaling $61 billion in 2013. ...
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When semi-trailer manufacturer Wabash National Corp. won an exclusive 5-year contract to produce 2,500 frac tanks for a supplier to the fast-growing hydraulic fracturing industry, it turned to DJ Products for a safe, effective way to move ...
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Washington, DC -- Key members of the oil and gas industry and energy-intensive manufacturing industries recently participated in a seminar, Hydraulic Fracturing, Natural Gas and the U.S. Manufacturing Renaissance, at the Ronald Reagan ...
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Hydraulic fracturing,or"fracking",is the process by which sand,water,and chemicals are injected into shale rocks at deep levels underground.This pressurization forces the extraction of oil and natural gas via a well located above the ...
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There is no question, the jump in pump prices these past few years have shaken the economy and challenged households. The upside is that higher fuel prices have fueled the so-called green revolution and high-tech transportation development. ...
Gulf Oil Review said that as OPEC members meet in Vienna next week they have good reason to feel satisfied. For the first time in history, the average price of the group's basket of oil has been above USD 100 a barrel for 8 consecutive ...
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Robust and long-lasting, Danfoss pressure and temperature controls play an important role in the oil and gas fields of the southeastern United States. Recently, the controls have gained popularity in a new process in the north – shale ...
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