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...“We’re taking shale gas from the Marcellus and Utica fields [in north-east US],” says Hilary Mercer, the executive in charge of the development....
...Last year Shell gave the go-ahead to a large new cracker in Pennsylvania, to take advantage of the cheap local ethane from the prolific Marcellus and Utica shales....
...Columbia is particularly attractive as a target because of its strong position in pipelines serving the Marcellus and Utica shales of Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia, which are the best performing gas-producing...
...The Dow Jones index also went past 18,000 for the first time, up about 0.4 per cent. The Nasdaq Composite lost 0.3 per cent at 4,765.42....
...The Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 2.2 per cent to 15,126.07, the S&P 500 rose 2.2 per cent to 1,692.56 and the Nasdaq Composite increased 2.3 per cent to 3,760.75....
...The transport sector of the Dow diverged further from the broad index, falling 1.5 per cent....
...The two large energy stocks had weighed on the Dow Jones Industrial Average, though the blue-chip index recovered to end the day up 0.2 per cent to 12,471.02....
...The Dow Jones Industrial Average edged up 0.2 per cent to 12,418,42 and the Nasdaq Composite index was flat at 2,648.36, although the Nasdaq had opened sharply lower as technology stocks suffered....
...The Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 2.9 per cent to 12,209.55, with all 30 members closing up....
...Gains for big banks pushed the Dow Jones Industrial Average up 2.5 per cent to 11,043.86, but the Nasdaq Composite index, which has a lower weighting of financials, and whose bank stocks tend to be small...
...By buying Atlas, Chevron will acquire a key stake in the rapidly-growing Marcellus shale gas fields, where Atlas has been working with Reliance Industries....
...The Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 0.6 per cent to 10,997.35 and 0.6 per cent over the five days....
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