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After spending many years in various technical and leadership assignments at Shell, Dr. Azra Tutuncu, Director of Unconventional Gas & Oil Institute and Campbell Chair at the Colorado School of Mines, figured out a great way to continue in and pass on unconventional oil and gas know-how to future...
The battle over the development of France’s unconventional hydrocarbon resources is set to reignite with the publication of a report in favour of research activities in hydraulic fracturing to investigate shale oil and gas resource potential. A joint report of the Conseil Général...
The prospects for large scale development of shale gas in Europe were tempered today with the release of official figures on recoverable reserves in Poland. A Polish government report showed recoverable reserves at between 346 billion and 768 billion cubic meters. The Polish Geological Institute prepared...
Exxon Mobil Corporation has called for the adoption of a systematic hydraulic fracturing fluid disclosure program in Europe to provide further information to communities, policymakers and regulators about natural gas development technologies. “ExxonMobil believes that a comprehensive disclosure...
Following up on its inital announcement last November, Porto Energy Corp., has it has entered into a definitive joint venture agreement with Sorgenia International B.V., Netherlands ("Sorgenia"), and Rohöl-Aufsuchungs Aktiengesellschaft, Austria ("RAG"), to jointly evaluate the unconventional...
When a large tanker truck pulls up to a fire hydrant in Greeley, Colo. -- a midsize town on the semiarid Eastern Slope of the Rocky Mountains -- and starts siphoning water from the city's supply, passersby start looking nervous. Chances are good the tanker is on its way to an oil or natural gas field...
Announcements out of Lithuania today reveal a move away from Russian gas dependence as it appointed Norway's Hoegh LNG as builder of an offshore platform and Polish LOTOS makes plans to drill for shale gas in the country. After a meeting with the Lithuanian Prime Minister, Pawel Olechnowicz, president...
Vermilion Energy Inc. is to take Total's stakes in six producing fields in the Paris and Aquitaine basins of France, following a deal with Total on Monday. T Vermilion's subsidiaries, Vermilion Exploration SAS and Vermilion Pyrénées SAS, will take Total's entire stakes in the six oil and...
The world's largest oil-field services company is preparing for the boom in shale gas and oil development to spread beyond North America in the coming years, likely heating up in 2013. Poland is already moving quickly to exploit gas reserves using horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing technologies.
Eesti Energia, Estonia's national power company, says that it is looking at ways to power the country's cars with fuel from oil shale by 2016. Speaking at a shale oil demonstration day, officials from Eesti Energia said that the potential for oil shale looked promising. Harri Mikk, the manager...