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Natural Gas to become world’s second main fuel
According to a new research made by ExxonMobil, the world’s largest oil and gas firm, in about eleven years gas will be the world’s second main fuel on an energy-equivalent basis, only behind oil. Natural gas will surpass coal as a global energy source in part because of the green benefits it offers.
read more... 13/12/2013
Poland will not apply taxes on shale gas production by 2020
After several foreign companies, as Exxon Mobil, Canada’s Talisman Energy and US oil firm Marathon, quit the Polish market in the past few months, the finance minister, Jacek Rostowski, has announced that Poland will not tax shale gas production until 2020 and will improve regulation, in a move which aims to attract energy explorers.
read more... 02/08/2013
Poland rethinks its strategy for shale gas production
Doubts over the scale of Poland's shale gas reserves surfaced last June after ExxonMobil announced plans to cease exploration, citing disappointing test drilling results. The withdrawal of two more multinationals - Talisman Energy of Canada and U.S. oil giant Marathon - has cast significant doubts over the viability of shale gas in Poland.
read more... 09/07/2013
Poland will not apply taxes on shale gas production by 2020
After several foreign companies, as Exxon Mobil, Canada’s Talisman Energy and US oil firm Marathon, quit the Polish market in the past few months, the finance minister, Jacek Rostowski, has announced that Poland will not tax shale gas production until 2020 and will improve regulation, in a move which aims to attract energy explorers.
read more... 23/05/2013
Oil production of five main international oil companies decreased 25% since 2004
Crude oil production of Exxon, BP, Shell, Chevron and Total has fallen by 25.8% over the past twelve years, after beating an historic high in 2004 when total combined crude production reached 10.76 million barrels a day. The production has fallen despite huge growth in their investments, allowed by the significant increase in crude oil prices practiced since late 2000.
read more... 22/04/2013