The government of Neuquen, a southwestern province of Argentina, said Monday it has approved ExxonMobil's investment plan for developing shale resources in the Bajo el Choique and La Invernada blocks. The company will work with Gas y ...
Tags: shale, GyP, natural gas
Solar-generated electricity will become just as cheap as that produced by natural gas in most parts of the world by 2025, according to a new analyst report. Lux Research, which specializes in predicting the impact of emerging and ...
Tags: Solar Electricity, Natural Gas
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 ...
Tags: chemicals, coating, paint pigment, shale oil
China's environmental degradation has become a growing source of public consternation and a potential political liability. Premier Li Keqiang declared a "war on pollution" in March 2014, vowing to reduce emissions from power generation and ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, Shale
Lux Research expects hybrid gas/solar technologies to mitigate intermittency of the renewable resource. Solar-generated electricity will become just as cheap as that produced by natural gas in most parts of the world by 2025, according to ...
Tags: solar electricity, natural gas, energy
Engineering and construction firms have come to the forefront in the efforts of the U.S. oil and gas industry to optimize and accelerate shale development and delivery, according to a new PwC US report released today entitled, Shale Gas: ...
Tags: engineering, construction, acceleration, shale, PwC
China has unveiled a five-year plan for its emerging shale gas industry as the government seeks to replicate the US success in extraction of the cleaner-burning unconventional fuel. The 2011-2015 plan, made public yesterday by the ...
Tags: Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy, gas
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 ...
Tags: Shale Gas, Chinese Oil Companies
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 ...
Tags: Oil, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
The response of Asian and global markets to US liquefied natural gas exports will be much stronger and will happen much sooner than many anticipate, putting strong downward pressure on Asian prices, Rice University fellow Kenneth Medlock ...
Tags: LNG Exports, Chemicals
US oil services company Schlumberger on Wednesday announced the opening of a reservoir laboratory in China's central Sichuan province to help support expanding activity in unconventional shale development. The company's new facility in ...
Tags: Shale Development, US Schlumberger
Even with the shale revolution leading to booming US oil production, the head of the US Energy Information Administration said Wednesday he does not expect the country to become an oil exporter any time soon. Beyond the political ...
US House Republicans on Wednesday unveiled two new bills aimed at opening more federal lands to oil and natural gas drilling and reforming federal lease sales. The Federal Lands Jobs and Energy Security Act, (H.R. 1965), which was ...
China will consider linking gas prices across the value chain as well as the establishment of a national natural gas trading market during the current 12th Five Year Plan period to 2015, according to an official development plan for natural ...