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Natural Gas: Fueling Progress, Ensuring Reliability in Southeast PA

Marcellus Shale Coalition

Since 2005, the increased use of natural gas has helped to significantly reduce harmful emissions. “We The economic impact of natural gas doesn’t stop at jobs in the field. In an energy landscape that’s constantly shifting, this kind of stable, always-available resource gives Pennsylvania, and the region, a major advantage.

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The heart of the US oil boom is slowing

Oil & Gas 360º

(BOE Report) –NEW YORK (Reuters Breakingviews) Oil fields are just as quick to make fortunes as break them. A mere two years later, over-extraction drove the field into decline. With even remote fields like Alaskas North Slope sputtering and the cost to find and extract an additional barrel of oil rising, collapse loomed.

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Upcoming Book Publication in Climate Fiction

Energy Central

ANNOUNCEMENT: For just over three years now I have been working on three manuscripts, named CLIMATE DRAGON and CLOUD DRAGON and FLAMING DRAGON, in the genre of climate fiction, a genre which came into its own in about 2005. Kim Stanley Robinson is considered by many to be the dean of this field, with works such as TheMinistry of the Future.

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1/4 Century: What Was the Oil and Gas Industry Like in the Early 2000s? Part 2

Rextag

By 2005, analysts predicted the Bakken contained 4.3 billion in profit in 2005, the highest ever recorded by a corporation. By 2005, ExxonMobil produced over 4.1 By 2005, Halliburton serviced over 40% of the U.S. million barrels of oil equivalent by 2005. shale revolution. ExxonMobil Achieved $36.1

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Colombia’s GeoPark appoints Felipe Bayon as its new CEO

Oil & Gas 360º

Bayon is a mechanical engineer who began his career in 1991 with Shell in field operations and projects and then moved to bp where he worked for 21 years in increasingly important operational and management roles in Colombia, Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, the U.S. and the U.K.,

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Why predictions of “peak oil” are always wrong: The mirage of “peak oil” in America

Oil & Gas 360º

Apparently, peak oil is back in vogue, like it’s 2005 instead of 2025. The Permian basin has become one of the most productive oil fields in the world, Fig. (World Oil) – The media are reporting new predictions that oil production in America is in irreversible decline. The Texas success story.

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Petrel Resources Raises £250,000 for Iraq Oil Projects

Iraq Business News: Oil & Gas

Block 8 covers 6,000 km2 in Wasit and north-eastern Diyala Petrel has previously conducted a Technical Cooperation Agreement on the Merjan oil-field in west-central Iraq, in a 50% partnership. The dramatic growth in North American fracked output between 2005 and 2014 is less of a concern for OPEC exporters.

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