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• Another volley has
been fired in the shale
revolution.
• Shale Development
Regulation and Piggable
Pipelines
• High Frequency Solution
for Resource-Constrained
Producers
Another volley has been fired
in the shale revolution.
The oil and gas boom that reversed declining output and sparked
robust production in the United States is now transforming the market
for natural gas liquids (NGLs).
With weak American natural gas prices, due to increased availability,
a growing number of US production companies are banking instead
on the profitability of NGLs – non-methane hydrocarbons such as
ethane, butane, and propane that occur in natural gas and are prized
(or priced) as petrochemical feedstock. No longer surrendering to the
notion that NGLs are just problematic by-products to be removed,
