DOE Study: Fracking Chemicals Didn’t Taint Water

by | Jul 19, 2013 | Uncategorized

PITTSBURGH (AP) — A landmark federal study on hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, shows no evidence that chemicals from the natural gas drilling process moved up to contaminate drinking water aquifers at a western Pennsylvania drilling site, the Department of Energy...

U.S. Oil Notches Record Growth

by | Jun 13, 2013 | Uncategorized

Rise in Production Is World’s Largest; Fueled by Fracking U.S. crude-oil production grew by more than one million barrels a day last year, the largest increase in the world and the largest in U.S. history. In the latest sign of the shale revolution remaking...

The Globalization of Energy Demand

by | Jun 4, 2013 | Uncategorized

The harnessing of energy is what makes possible the world as we know it. The bounty can be measured in terms of virtually everything we do in the course of a day. But can we bet on that for the future? The growth in world energy demand in the coming decades will be...

Global Shale Report: An expanding playground

by | May 29, 2013 | Uncategorized

US market going strong; in emerging markets, potential being weighed against challenges Conventional wisdom has its place, but when it comes to land drilling, the thinking these days has a definite unconventional spin. “Unconventional” includes the vast shale plays...