Energy Companies

You have to hand it to Canada-based Questerre Energy Corporation, they are doing everything they possibly can to clear a path for drilling on their extensive Utica Shale acreage located in the province of Quebec, Canada. (Yes, there is Utica Shale in Canada!) Questerre’s latest effort is to study alternative completion techniques to fracking. As you likely know, fracking involves using underground explosives to blow holes/cracks into the surrounding shale rock layer, allowing trapped gas (and oil) to escape. What if you could use existing cracks without blowing holes and creating new cracks?
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This is getting interesting. Last week MDN told you that Canadian driller Questerre Energy has found a way to fight back against Quebec, Canada’s insane, irrational plan to outlaw all oil and gas drilling–including drilling in the province’s Utica Shale layer–by forming an alliance with a local Indian tribe to drill on Indian land (see Questerre Finds Way to Circumvent Quebec’s Utica Drilling Ban). Less than a week later, the Indian Resource Council of Canada (IRC), an organization representing more than 130 First Nations (Indian tribes) across the country that produce energy or have direct interests in the energy industry, has joined the fight in support of Questerre. It has set up a battle between Quebec and the country’s First Nations.
Read More “Canada’s Indian Resource Council Supports Quebec Utica Drilling”