The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is considering adding two Texas counties — Wise and Hood — overlying the Barnett Shale in North Texas to the Dallas-Fort Worth (DFW) nonattainment area, which has failed to meet federal standards for ozone. Gas drilling activities in the region are thought by EPA to be contributing to the ground-level ozone, or smog, problem.
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Shale Boom Prompts GE Oil & Gas Acquisition
Growing producer demand for well services to support development of North American shale natural gas plays is a main driver behind GE’s planned acquisition of the well support division of John Wood Group plc for $2.8 billion, the company said.
February 15, 2011
Bush Calls for More LNG Terminals, Access to ANWR
President Bush, speaking at a construction machinery plant in North Carolina Monday, called for increased construction of liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminals and the opening of Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) to oil and gas drilling.
December 6, 2005