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The US shale oil industry has grown significantly in recent years.
BBC: US to become 'world's biggest oil producer'
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It has spent the last ten years in Texas providing hydraulic fracturing equipment for the more developed US shale oil and gas industry.
BBC: Fracking site
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The head of a leading engineering company has said Scotland is well placed to be at the forefront of a new European shale oil and gas industry.
BBC: Fracking site
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Weir has made a number of acquisitions throughout the year to boost its presence in the booming shale oil and gas industry in the US, which now accounts for about a third of the company's revenues.
BBC: Weir acquires US drilling firm Mathena for $240m
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The Geological Survey report, said Patrick Creighton, a spokesman for the Marcellus Shale Coalition, an industry group, found that oil and gas activity affected less than 1 percent of the forest area in Allegheny and Susquehanna counties.
WSJ: Northeast drilling boom threatens forest wildlife
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Like the U.S. shale gas industry there is plenty of evidence from historic oil exploration to support the Australian search for unconventional gas.
FORBES: Chevron Gets A Sniff Of Australian Shale Gas
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The Argentine government's recent decision to grab control of the country's largest oil firm, YPF, will scare off the foreign investment its shale industry needs.
ECONOMIST: The ��golden age of gas�� could be cleaner than greens think
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The oil industry is planning on drilling 3, 000 wells this year in the Eagle Ford shale alone.
FORBES: US Oil Industry Leads the Way in Extracting Hard-to-Get Crude; Steel to Benefit
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Environmentalists strongly oppose shale-gas extraction due to fears that fracking may contaminate water supplies, the oil-sands industry because it is energy-intensive and dirty, and deep-water drilling because of the risk of oil spills like last year's Gulf of Mexico disaster.
WSJ: Big Oil Companies Are Shifting Their Focus Back to the West
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Nevermind the thousands of practicing oil and gas geologists, engineers and other professionals in the industry itself who, based on hundreds of billions of dollars in investment in shale oil and natural gas resources by their companies, obviously disagree with these two.
FORBES: Shale Oil and Natural Gas - Whose Bubble is Really About to Burst?
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American innovation in discovering new techniques to release oil and gas from shale has paid massive dividends to the energy sector and created thousands of new jobs in the industry.
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