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GE Pushes Fracking Research With Lab in Bet on Shale Gas
Source: Bloomberg News

General Electric Co. (GE) will spend $110 million on a research lab in Oklahoma City to study ways to improve extraction of hard-to-reach oil and gas deposits, including hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling.

The facility will hire as many as 125 engineers and scientists in the coming months and will eventually expand its research to more conventional drilling techniques, Chief Technology Officer Mark Little said in a telephone interview.

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Wednesday, January 30, 2013 (389 reads)

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"Waterless" Hydraulic Fracturing
Monday, March 19, 2012 (1390 reads)

The same technology used to put man in space may soon be used to fracture oil and natural gas wells. Alliant Techsystems Operations LLC (ATK), a Washington D.C.-based defense and aerospace contractor, has combined its work in the energy field with its propulsion technology to provide an alternative to hydraulic fracturing.

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Earthquakes & Hydraulic Fracturing
Friday, March 16, 2012 (635 reads)