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...They are also clearly more comfortable with drilling than renewables: Shell’s 2021 capital expenditure strategy called for putting $2bn-$3bn into renewables and $12bn in oil and gas....
...Hedge fund billionaire Bill Ackman was planning to raise $3bn for his Pershing Square Tontine Holdings vehicle. It was already expected to be the largest Spac in history before he upped it to $4bn....
...EP Energy, whose drilling activities are focused on Texas and Utah, had been acquired by an investor group led by Apollo in 2012 for $7.2bn....
...(FT) Drilling down The Permian Basin straddling Texas and New Mexico has made the surrounding areas attractive locations for those chasing the US oil boom, and this time they think it will last....
...Cuadrilla is owned by Australian energy services company AJ Lucas and private equity firm Riverstone Holdings, but the company Mr Egan runs has just 25 full-time staff....
...However, there are signs of recovery, helped by the resumption of drilling and an order for its fluid from a “leading oil and gas company” in Myanmar....
...share price of $100 — said the move also underscored that other top-tier exploration and production companies have alternatives for their capital rather than pursuing a “one-sided strategy” of “merely drilling...
...While Biffa has managed to return to the London market, TI Fluid Systems, the auto parts maker, decided to pull its IPO last Thursday....
...Campaigners say fracking fluid could cause similar problems. “If United Utilities cannot even respond to a problem at the treatment works, how will they cope with leaks from fracking?”...
...It would erect panels more than 4m high around the drilling rigs to reduce noise....
...His company is working with Google on a “smart” contact lens that will measure blood sugar levels in tear fluid and transmit the data to a mobile device....
...Scottish moratorium and a simultaneous tightening of controls south of the border were a response to continuing public doubts about the safety and environmental impact of fracking, in which high pressure fluids...
...“The amounts of shale gas that were being uncovered [in 2002-06] were just astonishing,” says Papa, now a partner at the private equity firm Riverstone Holdings....
...Crucially, groups already holding oil and gas concessions – of which about three-quarters are held by YPF – will be able to renew them automatically....
...If JPMorgan had to comply with the rule, it would likely have had to move its derivatives holdings to its broker-dealer, JPMorgan Securities LLC. That would have hurt JPMorgan in two ways....
...Buyout funds typically own their holdings for about three to five years before selling them on....
...Higher prices would only encourage more drilling from US shale groups and other high-cost producers. All the while, they would only continue to lose market share....
...Last year, Grafton and G2 funded a joint venture with Calgary-based Bellatrix Exploration to fund new drilling in western Canada....
...Hemlines, as with spring/summer, were fluid and below-the-knee, knits were cashmere, alpaca and ribbed, coats were oversize and sable or tailored tweed, and it all instant-messaged a laisser-faire richesse...
...fluids....
...Many companies are now trying to sell their holdings there....
...American companies have refused to give the Chinese the proprietary breakdown of the ingredients in their fracking fluids, despite Chinese requests....
...Bob Daniels, Anadarko’s senior vice-president for deepwater and international exploration, highlighted evidence that the Shenandoah field had “reservoir rock and fluid properties of much higher quality than...
...His most recent investments include Transocean, the drilling rig operator that plans to pay its first dividend in more than a year after pressure from the corporate raider....
...Tullow said exploration drilling had identified a “fair to good” oil reservoir smaller than its previous find, which the company said was unsurprising given the more challenging target....
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