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