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Horizontal drilling, fracking begins in old, shallow oil and gas fields
2013-09-21 23:21:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Post-Gazette: If we could take a tiny glass elevator down the trajectory of a Marcellus Shale well, we would see slabs of coal, sandstone, shale and siltstone alternating and colliding with one another for thousands of feet until we finally reach the target rock. Today, half a dozen local oil and gas companies are forgoing the full ride. They're getting off the elevator halfway down, before the Elk Sandstone formation that separates the conventional oil and gas reservoirs from the deeper, unconventional plays...
United Kingdom: Aerial footage: Fracking test drilling begins in Balcombe
2013-08-02 14:46:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Telegraph: Cuadrilla's oil drilling project has been subject to days of delays because of high-profile protests designed to halt delivery of trucks and equipment to the plant. Today a Cuadrilla spokesman said: "We started test drilling at 11.15am, and we will do a 3,000ft vertical well. We will be there for two to three months." Campaigners fear the project at Lower Stumble, near Balcombe, West Sussex, could lead Cuadrilla to go on to conduct hydraulic fracturing, or fracking. The controversial method of...
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Balcombe oil drilling begins after anti-fracking protests cause delay
2013-08-02 14:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Drilling for oil close to the West Sussex village of Balcombe has begun following a week of blockades and protests by anti-fracking activists who fear that the possible use of the extraction method could lead to the pollution of water courses. Cuadrilla, the oil and gas exploration company headed by the former BP boss Lord Browne, said work started at around 11.30am on Friday and drills would penetrate more than 900 metres (3,000ft) into the Sussex shale to test for the availability of oil reserves....
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Caza Begins Drilling Second Bone Spring Well
2013-06-24 16:55:00| OGI
The primary target is the third Bone Spring Sand interval with potential secondary targets in the Brushy Canyon, Avalon shale, and first and second Bone Spring Sands.
Lundin Norway begins drilling development well at Brynhild
2013-06-18 01:00:00| Offshore Technology
Lundin Norway, a subsidiary of Lundin Petroleum, has started drilling the first development well on the Brynhild field, in the PL148 license in the North Sea.
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