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Shell commits steady investments in North Sea exploration
2013-08-05 01:00:00| Offshore Technology
Royal Dutch Shell said its UK arm is interested in North Sea investments and has been investing 2bn annually, either in new developments or in refurbishment of existing activities to upgrade them for the next ten to 20 years.
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United Kingdom: Fracking boss Francis Egan receives bomb threat over shale gas exploration
2013-08-04 06:18:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Telegraph: Francis Egan, the chief executive of Cuadrilla, has send he was send an email threatening to bomb his company headquarters if he did not cease activities in the UK. Cuadrilla announced that it has started as exploratory drilling began at a site in Balcombe, West Sussex, despite anti-fracking protests by local people and activists from across the UK. Villages across the UK have said that they will block any attempts to drill in the wake of the Balcombe protests. Writing in the Mail on Sunday...
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Gastar Exploration (GST) Set to Announce Quarterly Earnings on Monday
2013-08-02 16:25:22| Logistics - Topix.net
Gastar Exploration is scheduled to be issuing its Q2 2013 quarterly earnings data after the market closes on Monday, August 5th.
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Africa's Oldest National Park may be Put at Risk by Oil Exploration
2013-08-01 21:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World News: A proposal by British oil-exploration company Soco International to look for oil in Africa's oldest national park is being criticized by the conservation group World Wildlife Fund for Nature (WWF), which says Soco's plan puts the park's true value at risk. Soco International wants to explore for oil beneath Lake Edward, which exists within Virunga National Park in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. About two-thirds of the lake is within the DRC's political boundary, the rest is in western...
Congo's rare mountain gorillas could become victims of oil exploration
2013-08-01 10:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The Virunga national park, home to rare mountain gorillas but targeted for oil exploration by a British company, could earn strife-torn DR Congo $400m (263m) a year from tourism, hydropower and carbon credits, a WWF report published on Thursday concludes. But if the Unesco world heritage site that straddles the equator is exploited for oil, as the Congolese government and exploration firm Soco International are hoping, it could lead to devastating pollution and permanent conflict in an already...
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