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Japan Starts Commercial Fracking for (a Little) Shale Oil
2014-04-08 18:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Wall street Journal: Its hardly North Dakota, but Japans Akita Prefecture is making its own small mark in the oil business. Japan Petroleum Exploration Co.1662.TO -1.15%, or Japex, said this week that it has started commercial production of shale oil in the northern prefecture, the first such case in Japan. Hydraulic fracturingin which sand, chemicals and water are pumped at high pressure down a well to break up dense rock formationshas transformed the U.S. industry. Fracking has allowed companies to access tight...
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Shale Gas Boom Leaves Wind Companies Seeking More Subsidy
2014-04-07 21:06:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Bloomberg: Wind power in the U.S. is on a respirator. The $14 billion industry, the worlds second-largest buyer of wind turbines, is reeling from a double blow -- cheap natural gas unleashed by the hydraulic fracturing revolution and the death last year of federal subsidies that made wind the most competitive of all renewable energy sources in the U.S. Without restoration of subsidies, worth $23 per megawatt hour to turbine owners, the industry may not recover, and the U.S. may lose ground in its race...
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Shale industry faces reality check
2014-04-07 01:02:20| BBC News | Business | UK Edition
Is shale gas really the answer to our energy needs?
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Sinopec targeting 10B cubic meters of gas per year by 2017 from Chinas first large-scale shale gas field
2014-04-06 16:30:27| Green Car Congress
Intertek opens shale oil and gas laboratory in Texas
2014-04-04 01:00:00| Hydrocarbons Technology
Intertek has opened a new laboratory in Elmendorf, Texas, to address its opportunities in the Eagle Ford shale (EFS) market.
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