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USA Key Projects and Business Highlights In June 2013, the US energy agency, Energy Information Administration (EIA) updated its estimation of the shale gas reserves in the world and published its first estimations for the shale oil where USA ranks in the Top 5 countries in both cases. According to the 41 countries analyzed by the EIA, […]

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Shell – Estonian Eesti Energia – Karak International Oil to explore and develop Jordan oil shale resources The Jordan Oil Shale Company (JOSCO), a wholly owned Shell subsidiary, the Estonia company Eesti Energia (Enefit) and Karak International Oil (Karak) from the UK–based Jordan Energy and Mining Ltd, are now moving from the exploration phases of […]

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To Find Oil, You Have to Drill Established in 1926, Schlumberger Limited (Schlumberger) has become since that time the world market leader of the oilfield services with more than 115,000 employees working in approximately 85 countries, listed in New York, Paris, London, Amsterdam and Switzerland Stock Exchanges. Based in Houston, Texas, USA, Schlumberger provides oil and […]

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Strength-Stability-Growth Headquartered in Calgary, Alberta, Veresen Inc. (Veresen) is the former energy infrastructure company Fort Chicago Energy Partners L.P company, established in 1997. Listed in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Veresen changed named from Fort Chicago Energy Partners L.P. in January 2009. As energy infrastructure company, Veresen is running three businesses:  – Pipelines  – Midstream  – Power  The pipelines […]

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Definition Conventional oil and gas refers to petroleum, or crude oil, and raw natural gas extracted from the ground by conventional means and methods. Comments In practice conventional oil and gas, or the term of conventional resources, applies to oil and gas which can be extracted, after the drilling operations, just by the natural pressure […]

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Definition Oil shale refers to solid hydrocarbon (kerogen) rock resulting from a decomposed organic matter still at solid state, in a sedimentary rock unit. The oil shale may also be called black shale. Oil shale and shale oil must not be confused as they do not mean the same thing since shale oil designates tight oil or tight shale […]

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Definition Tight oil refers to the light crude oil trapped in shale, limestone and sandstone formations characterized by very low porosity and permeability. Tight oil is normally a light crude oil found in the sedimentary formations that may also be called light tight oil (LTO) or tight shale oil or even shale oil. Comments But […]

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