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Drilling, Fracking Efficiency Fuels Oil and Gas Boom
2014-03-24 05:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Central Climate: Technological advances in drilling efficiency are one of the reasons shale oil and natural gas production continues to skyrocket in six of America's biggest oil and natural gas fields, according to a new U.S. Energy Information Administration report. Production of crude oil and natural gas through the use of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, is considered to have a significant effect on climate change because of methane leaks in the natural gas distribution system that haven't been quantified...
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