In China's financial hub Shanghai, kitchen stoves now use a new energy source: shale gas, a clean energy that travels more than 1,600 kilometers to the city's homes via a series of pipelines. China has recently made breakthroughs in shale ...
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Driven in large part by the rapid expansion of shale oil and gas drilling and production in North America, the world market for oil field specialty chemicals at the service company level reached $25 billion in 2014, up from nearly $16 ...
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NEW YORK (AP) — General Electric’s net income rose 13 percent in the second quarter on strong performance from its aviation and oil and gas divisions. The company said orders, especially those in developing countries, were ...
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Sweden's Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) has created a monolithic operational amplifier circuit using 4H polytype silicon carbide (SiC) bipolar junction transistors (BJTs) [Raheleh Hedayati et al, IEEE Electron Device Letters, vol35, ...
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US Representative Pete Olson, R-Texas, on Tuesday called for less federal regulation for oil and gas drilling, including allowing some drilling in national parks. Olson, who spoke at the Texas Independent Producers and Royalty Owners ...
Japanese steelmaker JFE Steel Corporation has announced that it has developed the world's first API X80-grade high-frequency-welded (HFW) steel pipe with thickness of 25.4mm. JFE Steel also announced that it has received the first two ...
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China's top refiner, Sinopec Corp., has discovered a shale gas well located at a depth of 4,417 meters with maximum daily output of 105,000 cubic meters in southwest China, authorities said Wednesday. According to the Ministry of Land and ...
The Environmental Protection Agency was justified in intervening to examine possible risks of gas drilling to Texas drinking water, the agency's internal watchdog reported Tuesday. But environmentalists say the report raises fresh ...
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Groundwater and surface water samples taken near fracking operations in Colorado contained chemicals that can disrupt male and female hormones, researchers say. These chemicals, which are used in the fracking process, also were present in ...
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CONSOL Energy Inc. (NYSE: CNX), a leading Appalachian natural gas producer, is providing an update on Marcellus Shale well results from several CONSOL-operated drilling pads in Washington County, Pa. The eleven wells on three pads had an ...
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Tethys Petroleum Limited ("Tethys" or "the Company") (TSX:TPL)(LSE:TPL) today gave an update on its operations in Kazakhstan. AKD08 ("Doto") The AKD08 ("Doto") exploration well has reached a total depth of 3,556 metres and electric logs ...
Based on its latest PumpingIQ hydraulic fracturing report, PacWest Consulting Partners forecasts that the US Land market will complete a record number of hydraulic fracturing stages in 2013. Despite lower US rig counts, increasing frac ...
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Patience is the watchword with Cardiff-3, which hit 4,300 meters this morning. We've got strong gas shows in the target formations penetrated to date – as expected – with strong mudlog shows of up to 85% total gas readings in ...
Increased liquefied natural gas (LNG) exports could have some impact on the US natural gas price, but it may not be as high as the chemical industry fears, the chief economist for the American Petroleum Institute said in Houston Wednesday. ...
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Chinese companies are aiming to cut costs and enhance efficiencies as they become more familiar with shale gas development in the country, delegates at an unconventional gas conference said in Beijing this week. State-owned Sinopec has ...
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