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Mining Technology Development, New Mining Exploration Method creates water problem
Landowners and others who have spent the last eight or 10 years trying to educate themselves on the ups and downs of natural gas drilling now face all new concepts and new terminology to learn — phrases such as “hydrofracing” and “closed loop drilling.”
Exploration of recently discovered natural gas deposits in the Marcellus Shale formation [...]
Mining Exploration Educational Workshop on Natural Gas Drilling
An educational workshop on natural gas drilling is scheduled for the Tioga County Landowners Group at 7 p.m. Tuesday at the Tioga Central School auditorium.
Don Zaengle, a geologist, and attorney Chris Denton will talk about issues related to drilling into the Marcellus Shale.
The Tioga County Landowners Group, formed to represent landowners negotiating deals with energy [...]
North Dakota’s mineral resource leader gives estimate of oil in Bakken formation
North Dakota’s own estimate of how much oil can be gotten economically, using current technology, from the Bakken formation in the Williston Basin is slightly above or below 2.1 billion barrels, Lynn Helms reported this morning at a conference here.
Helms, director of the state’s department of mineral resources, said that estimate is based on a [...]
Oil and gas industry pumps $22.9 billon into economy
The oil and gas industry contributed nearly $23 billion in direct and indirect economic benefits in Colorado in 2005, according to a state-funded study released Thursday.
The industry, experiencing record natural gas development rates, generated $22.9 billion for the economy, or 6.1 percent of the total gross state product, according to the report by the Colorado [...]
