Despite a dozen small earthquakes in 2011 blamed on wastewater disposal wells, voters in the City of Youngstown, OH, stood firm on Tuesday and defeated, by a 57-43% margin, an amendment to the city’s charter that would have banned hydraulic fracturing (fracking).
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These Artists Don’t Like Fracking
She was blamed by many for breaking up The Beatles, and what John Lennon’s widow Yoko Ono and his son Sean Lennon are trying to do to hydraulic fracturing (fracking) won’t endear her to oil and gas producers either.
August 30, 2012
Pickens: Koch Industries ‘Biggest Deterrent’ to Broad U.S. Energy Plan
Investor guru and natural gas proponent T. Boone Pickens Wednesday blamed President Obama, Congress and Koch Industries for the lack of a comprehensive energy policy in the United States, although not necessarily in that order.
May 3, 2012
Industry Briefs
Representatives from a unit of BP plc began signing agreements with landowners in Trumbull County, OH, as the company readies to begin exploring its Utica/Point Pleasant Shale leasehold in 2013. In March BP completed an agreement with the Associated Landowners of the Ohio Valley to lease close to 84,000 acres in an unexplored area of the county, which is in the northeastern part of the state (see Shale Daily, March 28). With the agreements now in place, BP is executing individual terms with landowners, which may take up to six months. BP’s Ohio shale purchase moved it into ninth place among Utica/Point Pleasant leaseholders, according to data compiled from company reports by NGI’s Shale Daily. The top leaseholder is Chesapeake Energy Corp., which has an estimated 1.2 million net acres, followed by EnerVest and EV Energy Partners, which together lease an estimated 760,000 net acres. Chevron Corp. follows with 600,000 net acres.
April 12, 2012
Review: More Effort Needed to Prevent Disasters
Three decades after an Alberta inquiry blamed the province’s worst natural gas well blowout on human error, Canada’s arctic offshore drilling review has received the same warning to beware of sloppiness from international disaster prevention professionals.
August 8, 2011
Review: More Effort Needed to Prevent Disasters
Three decades after an Alberta inquiry blamed the province’s worst natural gas well blowout on human error, Canada’s arctic offshore drilling review has received the same warning to beware of sloppiness from international disaster prevention professionals.
August 8, 2011
Williams Swings to 3Q Loss, Agrees to Sell Piceance Midstream
Williams Cos. on Thursday posted a $1.26 billion loss for 3Q2010, which it blamed partly on significant impairment charges related to its Barnett Shale properties. The losses were a turnaround from the year-ago period when the Tulsa-based company had profits of $143 million (24 cents).
October 29, 2010
Marcellus Tax ‘Clearly Is Dead,’ Says Rendell
The promised natural gas severance tax for Marcellus Shale production “clearly is dead,” Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell said Thursday, and he blamed the General Assembly’s GOP members for refusing to “negotiate in good faith.”
October 25, 2010
Marcellus Tax ‘Clearly Is Dead,’ Says Rendell
The promised natural gas severance tax for Marcellus Shale production “clearly is dead,” Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell said Thursday, and he blamed the General Assembly’s GOP members for refusing to “negotiate in good faith.”
October 22, 2010
Another Energy Analyst Trims Gas Price Forecast
Tradition Energy on Wednesday blamed “the poor prospect of economic growth in the second half of the year” in revising its natural gas price forecast for 2010 down to $4.85/Mcf from $5.25.
August 12, 2010
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