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...The certificate could help US exporters win markets in European countries where there is widespread suspicion of the use of hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking”, to extract gas from shale reserves....
...The details of how he does so may matter less than the mere idea that Mr Trump is trying to “make America great again”....
...Simon Flowers, chief analyst at Wood Mackenzie, argued recently that “all the stars seem aligned for Tight Oil Inc. to generate positive cash flow in 2018, two years earlier than we predicted”....
...Frigid temperatures across much of North America have sparked record natural gas demand — but in a sign of the overpowering supply coming from shale rock, the surge did little to ignite futures prices....
...Once a shale well has been drilled it needs hydraulic fracturing or fracking and other procedures to start production....
...The hole is then pumped full of water, chemicals and sand to break up rocks and release gas and oil, a processing known as hydraulic fracturing. Rigs are moved to new well sites once the oil flows....
...The cost cuts achieved by driving down suppliers’s rates could be reversed in a recovery, as staff, rigs and pumps for hydraulic fracturing are put back to work....
...Wells that are Drilled but Uncompleted are holes in rock waiting for the steel tubing and hydraulic fracturing needed to bring them into production....
...Advances in sensors, hydraulics and artificial intelligence are helping to make robots more flexible, precise and autonomous, enabling them to be used in a wider range of manufacturing applications....
...Leaving drilled but uncompleted wells — sometimes known as DUCs — which need hydraulic fracturing to bring them into production, is a tactic that has been adopted by some companies in the hopes that they...
...However, it confirmed its basic policy is to make some crucial components — such as pumps for hydraulic shovels — in Japan, while assembly takes place close to the market....
...Mr Pellette said industry-wide sales of hydraulic excavators between 10-90 tonnes, will reach the “23,000 range” in China this year....
...independent oil and gas producer by market capitalisation, said earlier this month that the cost of land rigs for drilling wells in the US had dropped by 32 per cent over the past year, while the cost of hydraulic...
...The FTSE 100 company, which leases out items ranging from hydraulic drills to patio heaters, reported pre-tax profit of £155.4m for its first quarter, up 23 per cent compared with the same period last year...
...Mining and energy have been hard hit by sharp falls in the price of oil and other commodities, and construction revenues have fallen from North America to Asia....
...Some two-thirds of the extra recoverable oil would be produced in the Middle East and Latin America, IHS has estimated....
...Plunging prices for natural gas, which have fallen alongside oil since last summer, led to it being used to generate 31 per cent of America’s electricity in April, while coal contributed 30 per cent....
...Even the technology behind hydraulic fracking, which has helped power the US job market recovery, comes from public investment in the aftermath of the 1970s oil shortages....
...When people stop building they stop renting diggers, forklifts and hydraulic rock splitters. The company’s protection from the worst of this comes in two forms....
...However, he said, if oil prices remained at current levels, the company’s projections for crude oil traffic and related business, such as movements of sand for hydraulic fracturing of wells, would suffer...
...First, there are savings from putting pressure on suppliers of drilling rigs, hydraulic fracturing and other services....
...In a genuinely rags to riches ascent, he has gone from driving a truck around the oilfields of Oklahoma to being one of the 40 richest people in America....
...Other energy-related deals in the pipeline for the coming days include offerings by Canada-based Canbriam Energy and a new loan facility for C&J Energy Services, an independent provider of hydraulic fracturing...
...(FT) US oil imports sink US imports are close to a 30-year low as advances in hydraulic fracturing have propelled domestic production to the highest levelsince the mid-1980s....
...Continental and other companies are attempting to maximise the volume of oil that they can recover from shale by experimenting with the techniques of horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing that have...
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