The first Ohio shale well in the Utica and Marcellus Shale formations was drilled in February 2011. In the short time since, the formations have attracted some $64 billion in private sector investment ...

Researchers find that Earth’s orbital rhythms influenced sediment and organic preservation in Jurassic shale deposits.

High-resolution study of Jurassic mudstones in China’s Sichuan Basin reveals that astronomical cycles control climate, ...

QEP Resources discussed its geo-physical model for the Lower Spraberry Shale formation in the Midland Basin. Frac barriers within the formation may yield several independent producing benches (a ...

The Shale Bluffs area along Colorado Highway 82 near Aspen is a geological site that has posed transportation challenges for decades. The highway, due to surrounding unstable shale formations, has a ...

Argentina has overtaken Colombia as South America's fourth-largest oil producer, driven by rapid shale development in the ...

Billionaire Harold Hamm’s Continental Resources will buy assets from Argentina’s Pan American Energy, Bloomberg reported on ...

On Friday, Secretary of Energy and former Texas Governor Rick Perry traveled to San Antonio to participate in the Shale-a-Thon, the celebration of the 10th anniversary of the completion of the first ...

You can bless or curse the revolutionary drilling technology known as hydraulic fracturing, but you can’t doubt its impact. Tight-oil production from unlocking previously inaccessible shale resources ...

Organic-rich marine-continental transitional shale is widely developed in the Permian Shanxi Formation in the Southern North China Basin. In this study, shale samples from the southern and northern ...