shale
Example Sentences
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The area is rich in natural gas from deposits known as the Marcellus and Utica shale.
From Barron's
Energy-focused private-equity firms also have benefited from a recent wave of large mergers and acquisitions in the U.S. shale industry to buy the noncore oil fields that energy companies often shed after M&A deals.
Energy Secretary Chris Wright said in an interview that the industry needs to find the right technologies to extract more fossil fuels and expand the shale revolution.
That dynamic “naturally pushes companies to look beyond domestic shale,” she said.
From MarketWatch
Experts eventually discovered an underground fire fuelled by oil shale which had been used in the building of a long-gone railway line 120 years ago.
From BBC
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