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UKs Oil & Gas Authority offers new shale gas licences for 132 blocks
2015-12-21 01:00:00| Hydrocarbons Technology
The UK Oil & Gas Authority (OGA) has awarded another 132 new shale gas licenses under the 14th onshore oil and gas licensing round.
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UK to allow shale gas fracking beneath national parks
2015-12-17 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: British lawmakers on Wednesday voted in favor of the use of fracking to extract shale gas under national parks, weakening a decision against fracking in national parks made earlier this year and giving shale gas explorers access to more resources. Britain is estimated to have substantial amounts of gas trapped in underground shale rocks and Prime Minister Cameron has pledged to go all-out to extract these reserves, to help offset declining North Sea oil and gas output. But the use of fracking,...
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Burgess Shale fossil site gives up oldest evidence of brood care
2015-12-17 13:00:00| LifeSciencesWorld
[NEWS] Long before kangaroos carried their joeys in their pouches and honey bees nurtured their young in hives, there was the 508-million-year-old Waptia. Little is known about the shrimp-like creature first discovered in the renowned Canadian Burgess Shale fossil deposit a century ago, but recent analysis by scientists from the University of Toronto, Royal Ontario Museum, and Centre national de la recherche scientifique has uncovered eggs with embryos preserved within the bod…
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YPF and Dow to invest $500m on Argentina shale gas development
2015-12-16 01:00:00| Hydrocarbons Technology
Argentinas state-run oil company, YPF and Dow Chemicals local unit Dow Argentina have announced plans to invest $500m in 2016 to increase shale gas production on the El Orejano block.
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EIA ups total shale oil resource estimate by 13% to 419B barrels, shale gas by 4% to 7576 Tcf
2015-12-15 11:55:33| Green Car Congress
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