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What the frack? Analysts cool towards BHP's shale gas purchase

Frik Els | July 18, 2011 | 12:27 am Energy Top Companies Europe 

BHP Billiton's friendly $12 billion takeover of the US gas company Petrohawk is the group's largest in six years, and its most ambitious foray into the controversial business of shale gas extraction through a process called hydraulic fracturing or fracking....

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