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News Briefs: Two Killed in Mining Accident in West Virginia
Two miners who were killed on the job May 12 at a coal mine in Wharton, W.Va., worked in a coalfield that had so many safety problems federal officials deemed it a “pattern violator.”
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News Briefs: Feds Issue Emergency Order on Crude Oil Trains
The U.S. Department of Transportation issued an emergency order on May 7 requiring railroads to inform state emergency management officials before moving large shipments of crude…
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News Briefs: Rough Day for Oil Industry
April 30 was a rough day for the oil industry as two tragic incidents occurred involving oil rigs and trains carrying crude.
At a drill site in Orla, Texas, two men were killed and…
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News Briefs: Texas Oil Production Moving Up in World Ranking
Texas oil production could exceed the output of every OPEC country but Saudi Arabia by the end of this year, according to Greg Leveille, manager for technology program-unconventional…
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News Briefs: Eagle Ford Drilling Breaks Rig Number Records
The number of U.S. oil rigs jumped to a record high last week due to activity in the Eagle Ford Shale Play in Texas, according to weekly data from Baker Hughes Inc., the Houston-based…
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News Briefs: Labor Report Shows Huge Job Creation in Marcellus Shale
Shale development continues to be a huge economic driver and job creator for states where development is taking place.
The latest U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics report released in…
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News Briefs: Resource-Producing Basins Seeing Increased Productivity
Increased precision and efficiency of horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing in oil and natural gas extraction is leading to an increase of oil and natural gas well productivity…
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News Briefs: Marcellus Shale Continues to Exceed Expectations
Marcellus Shale production has continued to increase exponentially, according to a February 2014 drilling productivity report for tight oil and shale gas regions released by the Energy…
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News Briefs: North Dakota Produces Record-High Barrels of Oil
North Dakota broke a record in November, producing 973,045 barrels per day of oil, according to a report issued by the North Dakota Department of Mineral Resources on Jan. 14.
In…
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News Briefs: Pennsylvania Moves Up to No. 3 in Gas Production
Pennsylvania may become the second-largest producer of natural gas in 2013 according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration’s report on natural gas released Dec. 12.
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