By Peter Behr Another link in an industrial chain Ohio hopes to see growing around the Utica ShaleA fine grained sedimentary rock composed mostly of consolidated clay or mud. Shale is the most frequently occurring sedimentary rock. play was added Tuesday with the opening of a factory in Youngstown that builds natural gasA naturally occurring
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Anya Litvak Reporter- Pittsburgh Business Times While the rest of us are biting our fingernails waiting for June 30 to exhale on the Shell cracker will they or won’t they saga, Gov. Tom Corbett said he’s not expecting a decision until 2014. I never had June as a date, Corbett told the Pittsburgh Business Times on
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Shell and Williams Partners have announced a midstream joint venture to serve natural gasA naturally occurring mixture of hydrocarbon and non-hydrocarbon gases beneath the earth’s surface – often in association with petroleum. production companies in the Marcellus and Utica shales and build a system that would connect to the proposed ethane crackerStream cracking plant in
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As it looks to boost demand for bountiful natural gasA naturally occurring mixture of hydrocarbon and non-hydrocarbon gases beneath the earth’s surface – often in association with petroleum., Royal Dutch Shell figures a good way to start is by keeping the home fires burning. The company is leveraging its position as one of the largest
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PITTSBURGH — In an unlikely partnership between longtime adversaries, some of the nation’s biggest energy companies and environmental groups have agreed on a voluntary set of standards for gas and oil hydraulic fracturingRefers to a method used by producers to extract more natural gas from a well by opening up rock formations using hydraulic or
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