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ThinkstockPublic concerns over contamination of drinking water caused by exploring for and producing natural gas by hydraulic fracturing (fracking) have resulted in at least one study that finds...
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ThinkstockThe move to 2.53% in the 10-year Treasury is still near the lower end of the range of 1.5% to 5.1% since 2003. Of significance to the master limited partnership (MLP) analysts at Deutsche...
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ThinkstockA British energy exploration and production firm called IGas recently has estimated that the area it has been licensed to explore in the United Kingdom may hold as much as 170 trillion...
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ThinkstockGood news is here for consumers who hate high gasoline prices. There is something at work that may keep the price of oil from rising too much, but the price may not fall too much either. A...
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ThinkstockWhen the U.S. EPA released its first study of possible groundwater contamination near Pavillion, Wyoming, last December, Encana Corp. (NYSE: ECA) said the results didn’t prove anything....
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ThinkstockWhile the U.S. drought continues to wreak havoc with crops, scarce water also has an impact on the price of U.S. crude oil and natural gas. The operative word in “hydraulic fracturing”...
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ThinkstockNationwide Mutual has become the first insurance company to decline coverage for claims related to hydraulic fracturing, a controversial energy production known as “fracking.” In a...
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Billionaire Wilbur Ross, who founded International Coal Group in 2005 and sold the company to Arch Coal Inc. (NYSE: ACI) last year for $3.4 billion, told Bloomberg News that current problems in the...
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A major supplier of the engines and transmissions that drive the hydraulic fracturing (fracking) at US oil and gas wells announced this morning that it is reducing its second quarter and full year...
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An asset sale to a Chinese buyer would not be a first for Chesapeake Energy Co. (NYSE: CHK), but if a reported deal does happen, it would likely be the largest such deal the beleaguered gas company...
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Based on early geological studies, Poland was believed to be sitting on about 187 trillion cubic feet of natural gas locked up in the same kinds of shale formations that have yielded up massive...
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The development of unconventional natural gas resources in the lower 48 states supported 1 million jobs in 2010, and that total will grow to 1.5 million by 2015 and to more than 2.4 million by 2035...
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courtesy International Energy AgencyThe International Energy Agency (IEA) today released a special report in its World Energy Outlook series that anticipates an enormous boost in global...
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Many members of the EU want Greece to remain a member but have begun to prepare for its departure. (Reuters) Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ) posts better-than-expected earnings and says it will fire...
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Reserves of UK shale gas could total up to 1,000 trillion cubic feet according to the latest data from the British Geological Survey. Most of that would be offshore, in the North Sea, and would...
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