According to a recent report by Natural Gas Intelligence, U.S. natural gas available for production “has jumped 58% in the past four years, driven by improved drilling techniques and the discovery of huge shale fields in Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas and Pennsylvania, according to a report issued Thursday by the nonprofit Potential Gas Committee (PGC).”
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July 8th, 2009 marks the one-year anniversary of T. Boone Pickens’ Energy Independence Day. What’s the goal? It is energy independence for our great nation by relying on the natural treasures we already have in abundance. To hear energy futurists talk, you might think Americans are driving around with windmills on their car powered by [...] WASHINGTON, June 29 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — As our nation celebrates Independence Day, it is time for America to truly focus on reducing our dependence on energy sources from outside our borders, which is achievable thanks to new discoveries of clean, abundant natural gas here in America. Billionaire oil investor T. Boone Pickens said this past Wednesday, that he doubts a $26 billion natural gas pipeline from Alaska will be built any time soon as abundant new shale gas supplies reduce the need for the expensive project. The Senate panel last week approved an energy bill in a 15-8 vote from the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee. The new energy bill opens large tracts of the Gulf of Mexico to oil and natural gas drilling and provides federal loan guarantees for a gas pipeline project in Alaska. The [...] |
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