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Cyprus: natural gas drilling is likely to continue despite Turkish threats
The Greek Cypriot government promised that extraction and drilling of natural gas offshore Cyprus will continue, even though Turkey has threatened to block these operations since it thinks the energy assets partly belong to Turkish Cypriots.
read more... 25/02/2014
France: a new method of shale gas extraction was proposed
France might be interested in testing a new technique of shale gas extraction with non-flammable propane, which has still to be confirmed as a secure and efficient one. Even though the exploitation of shale gas is prohibited in France, the Minister for Industrial Renewal, member of President Francois Hollande's Socialist Party, Arnaud Montebourg, has recently announced that he is in favor of extracting shale gas with the help of a new method of extraction, an experimental type of “clean fracking” which employs fluoropropane.
read more... 13/02/2014
Poland to adopt a new shale gas regulation by the end of the year
Poland’s environment ministry is ready to draft new regulation for the exploration and extraction of shale gas and send it to the government for approval before the end of the year, declared Poland's Minister of the Environment Maciej Grabowski.
read more... 27/11/2013
Public Health England: Shale gas is almost innocuous
According to a Public Health England (PHE) report, shale gas extraction represents a low risk to public health if it was properly managed and regulated.
read more... 01/11/2013
Turkey started operations for shale gas extraction
Turkey has started hydraulic fracturing operations to extract shale gas in the Thracian and southeastern Anatolian regions. Turkey is aiming to expand the employ of horizontal drilling to exploit the estimated 163 trillion cubic feet of reserves that have been detected in the country.
read more... 26/09/2013