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Antero Touts Premium Natural Gas and NGL Markets Exposure, Forecasts 2025 Market Rebalance

Antero Touts Premium Natural Gas and NGL Markets Exposure, Forecasts 2025 Market Rebalance

Appalachian Basin pure play Antero Resources Corp. expects the currently oversupplied natural gas market to balance over the next year as producers tap the brakes and export demand picks up. During a call to discuss first quarter earnings, CEO Paul Rady and his management team highlighted the natural gas liquids-rich production mix and exposure to…

May 1, 2024
Bitcoin Miners Eyeing Argentina’s Natural Gas Cash Cow

Bitcoin Miners Eyeing Argentina’s Natural Gas Cash Cow

British company FMI Minecraft is working on a project to mine the cryptocurrency Bitcoin using natural gas from Argentina’s Vaca Muerta. The project would be in the Zapala free trade zone in the province of Neuquén and source gas from the Vaca Muerta, or ‘Dead Cow’ shale formation. “Vaca Muerta is great because there are…

March 24, 2022
Cryptocurrency Mining Showing Promise to Mitigate Natural Gas Flaring in North Dakota

Cryptocurrency Mining Showing Promise to Mitigate Natural Gas Flaring in North Dakota

Data centers used to mine cryptocurrency such as Bitcoin are proving an attractive option to mitigate natural gas flaring in North Dakota, the state’s top oil and gas regulator said Wednesday. The energy-intensive process of solving cryptographic puzzles to verify transactions on the distributed network known as the blockchain requires a round-the-clock source of reliable…

October 15, 2021
Ecoark Looking to Power Cryptocurrency Mining with Constrained Natural Gas

Ecoark Looking to Power Cryptocurrency Mining with Constrained Natural Gas

San Antonio-based Ecoark Holdings Inc. plans to begin beta testing a cryptocurrency mining approach in May that would be powered by natural gas that is constrained by a lack of infrastructure. The diversified holdings company established a strategic initiatives team in February to analyze ways to deploy capital for the test project. Led by CFO…

April 13, 2021