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Geologist cites safety and necessity of Marcellus Shale development UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa., Feb. 2, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- In the midst of political debate over natural gas development in Philadelphia, Penn State Geosciences Professor Michael Arthur highlights the incongruities in local anti-fracing movements: "Practically all U.S. natural gas development involves hydraulic fracturing, so it would be very difficult for consumers to discriminate specific natural gas sources because...
HOUSTON, Dec. 20, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- Synthesis Energy Systems, Inc. ("SES") (Nasdaq: SYMX), a global energy and gasification technology company, announced today the successful completion of a commercial-scale demonstration test in which more than 2,000 tons of high ash coal from Queensland, Australia, were gasified at its Zao Zhuang plant in Shandong Province, China. The syngas produced during the test met all production performance specifications, including greater than 98% carbon...
PITTSBURGH, Nov. 15, 2010 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- CONSOL Energy Inc. (NYSE: CNX) will present at the Dahlman Rose & Co. First Annual Global Metals, Mining & Materials Conference on November 17, at 1:30 p.m. ET. CONSOL Energy will also present at the Bank of America Merrill Lynch Credit Conference on November 18, at 9:30 a.m. ET. Both presentations by William J. Lyons, Executive Vice President and CFO, will be webcast live, with slides available on the investor relations portion of...
HOUSTON, Nov. 10, 2010 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Gastar Exploration Ltd. ("Gastar") (NYSE Amex: GST) announced today that the Company has executed a Purchase and Sale Agreement ("PSA") with undisclosed private sellers for the acquisition of approximately 59,000 net acres of leasehold in the Marcellus Shale concentrated in Preston, Tucker and Pendleton Counties, West Virginia. Terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. Closing of the transaction is expected to take place in...
PITTSBURGH, Sept. 28 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- CONSOL Energy Inc. (NYSE: CNX) has refinanced $102.865 million of industrial development bonds associated with its 100%-owned CNX Marine Terminal in the Port of Baltimore, Maryland. The municipal bonds are due on September 1, 2025 and carry an interest rate of 5.75%. "We are very pleased to have refinanced this debt in a year when our terminal is expected to post record shipments of coal," commented William J. Lyons, chief financial officer....
MINNEAPOLIS, Sept. 16 /PRNewswire/ -- Bixby Energy Systems, Inc. has added carbon liquefaction technology to its energy portfolio, which when commercialized, will allow the company to produce both synthetic natural gas and light sweet crude oil from coal without the need to burn the coal and significantly reducing harmful greenhouse gases. The liquefaction technology, being developed with Proton Power, Knoxville, Tenn., will be integrated into the Bixby Process(TM) which the company...
HOUSTON and SYDNEY, Sept. 15 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Synthesis Energy Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: SYMX), an advanced technology company that provides products and solutions to the energy and chemical industries, and Coalworks Limited (ASX: CWK), an emerging Australian coal explorer and energy developer, today made a joint presentation titled "Production of Liquid Fuels from Oaklands Coal Utilizing U-GAS® and MTG Technologies" at the Global XTL and IGCC Congress 2010 in Beijing, China. "This...
TSX.V Symbol: PTR VANCOUVER, June 21 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ - Petromin Resources Ltd. (TSX.V: PTR) ("Petromin") is pleased to announce that Terrawest Energy Corp. ("TWE") has reported that a NI 51-101 and Canadian Oil & Gas Evaluation (COGE) Handbook compliant evaluation report on the CBM resources has been completed for a portion of its Liuhuanggou Project lands in Xinjiang, China. The report was completed by Norwest Corporation. The Report provides an estimate of CBM Contingent...
TSX.V Symbol: PTR VANCOUVER, May 25 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ - Petromin Resources Ltd. (TSX.V: PTR) ("Petromin" or the "Company") is pleased to announce that Terrawest Energy Corp. ("TWE") has reported positive results of gas desorption testing of drill core samples from its Liuhuanggou CBM Project in Xinjiang, China. As previously reported, the 2009 drilling program included testing coal drill core samples taken from both the Xishanuyao ("J2X") and Badaowan ("J1B") formations. Well LHG...
PITTSBURGH, April 16 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- CONSOL Energy Inc. (NYSE: CNX) and CNX Gas Corporation (NYSE: CXG) will issue earnings releases on Thursday, April 29, before the market opens. The companies will hold a combined quarterly conference call to discuss first quarter results on the same day at 10:00 a.m. Eastern Time. This call is being webcast by Thomson/CCBN and can be accessed on the investor relations portion of both companies' Web sites at http://www.consolenergy.com/ and...
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The Flint Hills, known historically as Bluestern Pastures or Blue Stem Hills, are a group of hills located in eastern Kansas reaching into north central Oklahoma, extending from Marshall County and Washington County in Kansas in the north to Cowley County, Kansas and Osage and Kay counties in Oklahoma towards the south. The people of Oklahoma usually refer to the same geologic formation as the Osage Hills or “The Osage”. The Flint Hills are designated as a unique ecoregion due to it...
Celestite (SrSO4) is a mineral consisting of strontium sulfate. The mineral is also known as celestine and is named for its occasional delicate blue color. Celestite occurs as crystals, and also in compact massive and fibrous forms. It is mostly found in sedimentary rocks, often associated with the minerals gypsum, anhydrite, and halite. The mineral is found worldwide, usually in small quantities. Pale blue crystal specimens are found in Madagascar.
Chert is a fine-grained silica-rich cryptocrystalline sedimentary rock that may contain small fossils. It varies greatly in color from white to black, but most often manifests as gray, brown, grayish brown and light green to rusty red; its color is an expression of trace elements present in the rock, and both red and green are most often related to traces of iron (in its oxidized and reduced forms respectively). It outcrops as nodules in limestone, chalk, and dolostone formations as a...
In geology, a conglomerate is a rock consisting of other stones that have been cemented together. Conglomerates are sedimentary rocks consisting of subangular clasts and are thus differentiated from breccias, which consist of angular clasts. Both conglomerates and breccias are characterized by clasts larger than sand (>2 mm). There are two varieties of conglomerate, defined by texture: paraconglomerates and orthoconglomerates. Paraconglomerates are one of two varieties of conglomerate...
Dolomite is a mineral (formula CaMg(CO3)2) consisting of a calcium magnesium carbonate found in crystals and in beds as dolostone. A pure form of dolostone would be rare, however; it usually intergrades with limestone and is referred to as dolomitic limestone, or in old U. S. geologic literature as magnesian limestone. Dolomite has physical properties similar to those of the mineral calcite, but is less soluble in hydrochloric acid. There is uncertainty as to the cause of its formation,...
