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Energy News Roundup: Riot Police at Chevron’s Romania Shale Site

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Anti-FTAA Protesters Clash With Police In Miami

Chevron is restarting a shale drilling campaign in Romania, which has met resistance from the local population. As many as 300 riot police are patrolling the site. [Natural Gas Europe] Platts’ Brian Scheid has written an interesting piece on the Department of Energy’s latest LNG export approval, for an additional 0.4 billion cubic feet per… Keep reading →

 /  Published December 3, 2013 at 8:30 AM

Energy News Roundup: A Tilt Towards Fracking Across the Atlantic?

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Blackpool's Shale Gas Drilling Begins

UK shale explorer IGas says that its licence area in northwest England could hold more than 170 trillion cubic feet of gas, up from previous estimates of 9 tcf. However, the new estimates also suggest that the licence could hold as little as 15 tcf. That’s still a lot of gas, but the range suggests… Keep reading →

 /  Published June 4, 2013 at 8:30 AM