Oil Sands & Gas Shale UPDATE
October 2012
INDUSTRY ANALYSIS
OVERVIEW
Origin Oil to License its Clean-Frack Process for Oil & Gas Market
Water Treatment Can be the Mediator in the Fracking Debate
New Report from Frost & Sullivan Says Shale Gas Will Reshape World Energy Markets
Lux Research Says Frack Water Market to Reach $9 Bln in 2020
Shale Boom Causing Companies to Rethink Transportation, Storage
Discovery Reveals that Fracking and Carbon Capture Plans could Be Combined
AMERICAS
U.S.
Delta Looking to Transport Bakken Crude by Rail to Pennsylvania Refinery
Enterprise Announces Start-up of Second Train at Yoakum Natural Gas Processing Facility in the Eagle Ford Shale
Ridgeline Energy Services Offers Economic Water Treatment Option for Oil and Gas Operations
Chesapeake Energy Sells Shale Acreage, Pipelines for $6.9 Bln
Enbridge, DTE, Spectra Plan to Build between $1.2 and $1.5 Bln Ohio Natural Gas Pipeline
Sunoco Transfers Philly Refinery to Carlyle Group JV
Wastewater Treatment Company Heckmann to Buy Power Fuels to Increase Its Fracking Business
University of Minnesota Researchers Find Way to Clean Fracking Wastewater
Shuttered Marcus Hook Refinery to Process Marcellus Shale Products
Forestar Group Completes Acquisition of Credo Petroleum
U.S. / CANADA
New Voraxial Order from the Booming Shale Oil & Gas Sector for Frac Water Processing
CANADA
Shell to Proceed with Alberta Oil Sands Quest CO2 Capture
Shell Canada and Dawson Creek Launch the Dawson Creek Reclaimed Water Project in BC
Athabasca Oil Corp Awards Contract to GE's Water Treatment Technologies for Hangingstone Oil Sands SAGD Project
Shell’s Jackpine Oilsands Development about to Exceed Alberta's New Pollution Limits
SilverWillow Energy Advances Alberta Audet Oilsands Project
Williams Cos. Plans Oil-Sands Gas Processing Project
ASIA
INDIA
India's ONGC Videsh to Invest in Oil Sands, LNG Contracts in North America
CHINA
China to Announce Second Shale Gas Exploration Tender
EUROPE / AFRICA
SCOTLAND
Scotland to Increase Investment in Oil and Gas Sector Again
SOUTH AFRICA
South Africa to Conditionally Approve Fracking under Supervision of Future Monitoring Process