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...His first whale postmortem was a 15-metre-long fin whale that had washed up in Devon in 2010....
...In recent months, following tenacious representation from the Hon Members for St Austell and Newquay, North Devon, Cities of London and Westminster, Torbay and Truro and Falmouth, I have been looking closely...
...And following a wet and then cold winter, I also received particularly strong representations from my hon friends from North Devon, South-West Devon and Newton Abbot as well as councillor Peter Martin from...
...Landscape gardener Marcus Barnett has done exactly that in a private residence in Wiltshire where he has created a walled garden, enclosing a sunken seating area and a water rill, overarched by multi-stemmed...
...Continental Resources was not the first company to combine the techniques in this way: that was Devon Energy, which began fracking horizontal gas wells in the Barnett Shale of north Texas in 2003 after buying...
...A year later, the company was acquired by Devon Energy for $3.5bn and Mitchell was a billionaire. The Barnett methods were soon being used across the US, powering a surge in production....
...Yet Devon, an Oklahoma-based independent oil and gas company, is producing as much from the Barnett Shale as ever – about 1.32bn cubic feet of gas equivalent per day....
...The group said in a separate statement on Wednesday that it was halting efforts to sell properties in the Barnett Shale because of low bids....
...Devon holds a leading position in the Barnett Shale – the biggest producing gas field in the US, as well as other shale fields across the country....
...However, as the majors move back into the US, Devon holds a leading position in the Barnett Shale, the US’s biggest producing gas field....
...Big shale gas producers, such as Chesapeake and Devon Energy, have taken public issue with Mr Berman’s assertions that the prospects for sustained high levels of gas production from shales were overstated...
...Larry Nichols, chief executive of Devon Energy, one of the early investors in Barnett Shale, said: “These times of downturn take away some of the exuberant excesses that were creeping into the industry.”...
...Devon Energy, which has been a leader in extracting natural gas from shale rock – one of the fastest growing of the unconventional sources – has extensive natural gas production in the Barnett Shale of north...
...The so-called “Barnett formula”, which gives Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland more more public spending per head than the English regions, was not improving the competitiveness of the worst performing...
...In the last year alone, Devon Energy, an oil and gas explorer, has grown production by more than one-third to more than 1bn cubic feet equivalent a day in the Barnett Shale, its largest asset and one of...
...Nowadays, in London’s desirable fringes (where you’ll find such league-table toppers as Queen Elizabeth’s, the Tiffin Girls’ School in Kingston upon Thames and Henrietta Barnett in Hampstead Garden Suburb...
...By the time Mitchell retired in 2002, following the sale of Mitchell Energy to Devon Energy, he had built his dream into an exploration company with 2,000 employees....
...The Royal Grammar School, High Wycombe; Henrietta Barnett in north London; Chelmsford County High School, Essex; and Colyton Grammar, Devon, also punched above their weight in 2006....
...On the gas front, Devon Energy last year spent $2.2bn (€1.7bn, £1.1bn) expanding its already sizeable position in Texas’s Barnett shale by acquiring Chief Oil and Gas....
...Yet, in the second quarter of this year, Devon drilled about 100 wells in a 90-day period in the Barnett Shale....
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