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      <title><![CDATA[After The Gold Rush: A Perspective On Future U.S. Natural Gas Supply And Price]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[On January 23, 2012, Chesapeake Energy announced that it would curtail drilling in shale gas plays in the United States. Subsequently, other operators have followed suit. While the outcome of this announcement is unclear, it is a signal that the industry is in distress. One can argue that this distress stems from a lack of discipline as market price began to decline. read more...]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 15:10:11 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Shale, Foreign Investment Drive Energy M&A Growth]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Continued investment in shale plays, foreign buyers and private equity capital investment fueled 2011 growth in U.S. oil and gas mergers and acquisitions, according to an analysis of energy M&A activity by PricewaterhouseCoopers released Wednesday. Last year, there were 191 deals with values greater than $50 million, which added up to a total of $186.5 billion, a jump in total deal value from the $138.5 billion during 2010. Driven by 32 deals worth more than $1 billion, average deal size also increased to $977 million, a 38 percent increase from $706 million in 2010...]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:43:35 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Crimson Exploration Inc. Provides An Eagle Ford Shale And Woodbine Operational Update]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Crimson Exploration Inc. announced another successful oil well in Karnes County, Texas and provided status updates for current Eagle Ford and Woodbine wells curren...]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Sierra Club Objects To LNG From Shale]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Advocacy group Sierra Club filed a formal objection over plans to export liquefied natural gas from a port in Maryland because of ties to fracking.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 11:50:37 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[China Getting Feet Wet With B.C.'s Shale Gas]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[On the eve of Premier Christy Clark's announcement of a strategy to pro-mote the export of liquefied natural gas to Asian markets, a story out of Hong Kong provided a reminder of how fast things are moving in the volatile energy sector.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 10:37:28 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[PKN Orlen To Work With Polish Companies In Shale Gas For Now -Report]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Poland's largest refiner, PKN Orlen SA (PKN.WA), is putting plans for a shale gas asset-swap or merger with a foreign energy company on hold and will instead join with other state-controlled companies exploring for the unconventional hydrocarbon, Chief Executive Jacek Krawiec is quoted as saying Wednesday in Puls Biznesu.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 08:49:49 GMT</pubDate>
      <category><![CDATA[Hydrocarbon]]></category>
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      <title><![CDATA[Democrats On Shale-fee Approval: "It Was Very Much Hardball Politics"]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[HARRISBURG - Democrats are calling it hardball. Republicans say it was a fair negotiation. The dispute centers on the state GOP-controlled Senate's 31-19 approval Tuesday morning of a long-debated "local impact fee" on extraction of natural gas from the Marcellus Shale. The House is scheduled to vote on the same 174-page bill Wednesday and send it to Gov. Corbett if it passes.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 08:16:09 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Senate Approves Marcellus Shale Drilling Impact Fee Bill]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[HARRISBURG - As part of a budget day extravaganza, the Senate gave final approval Tuesday to a county-option Marcellus Shale drilling impact fee that provides some revenue for statewide environmental programs and state review of local zoning rules.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 06:15:41 GMT</pubDate>
      <category><![CDATA[Drilling]]></category>
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      <title><![CDATA[Impact Of Natural Gas Drilling On Washington County PA]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[This video and article feature some of the positive impacts that natural gas drilling in the Marcellus Shale has brought to the economy of Washington County, Pennsylvania and neighboring areas.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 05:54:57 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Statoil Raises Capital Spending In Shale Oil Bet]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[The firm hopes to raise its output by a third over the next decade. Projected capital spending for 2012 is now estimated at 17 billion previous years seen at 16 billion following Statoil39s 4...]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 04:36:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Southcross Energy Expands Natural Gas Processing, Fractionation Complex In South Texas]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[The development will expand the company39s ability to serve producers operating in the liquidsrich Eagle Ford Shale area where the NGLs infrastructure is constrained. Southcross will have the capa...]]></description>
      <link>http://www.energydigger.com/articles/2012-02-07/southcross-energy-expands-natural-gas-processing-fractionation-complex-in-south-texas.aspx?utm_source=feeds.energydigger.com&amp;utm_medium=RSS</link>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2012 02:50:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Energy Independence: Not The Solution To All Problems]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[What would energy independence mean to the United States? That question is raised by 's latest Outlook. The report does not actually predict the United States will become energy independent by 2030, though it says that North America will be. This comes from greater production, thanks to the new technologies driving natural gas and shale...]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 23:12:54 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Southcross Adding Capacity To Ship More Eagle Ford Shale Gas]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Southcross Energy will expand its new natural gas processing and fractionation complex in Refugio County, Texas in order to better serve producers in the Eagle Ford Shale area. Once the expansion is completed, Dallas-based Southcross will have the capacity to process 335 million cubic feet of natural gas per day and fractionate 16,300 barrels per day of natural gas liquids. The Eagle Ford Shale is a geological formation that has proven accessible from counties just south of San Antonio. The full announcement can be found by clicking here...]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 21:17:49 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Pa. Senate Approves First Fees On Shale Drilling]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Pennsylvania, the only major gas-producing state that does not tax the taking of natural gas from its soil, moved closer Tuesday to imposing a fee on the drilling in its vast Marcellus Shale reserves that has transformed the state in recent years.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 21:05:57 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title><![CDATA[Oil And Gas Stock Outlook]]></title>
      <description><![CDATA[Crude oil's near-term fundamentals remain mixed, to say the least. Shale gas is a quiet revolution that has been reshaping the energy business.]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 20:54:33 GMT</pubDate>
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