Black shales, the compressed mud of ancient seas, were known as petroleum source rocks. But over geologic time much of the oil and gas had migrated out of the shales into porous sandstone traps ...

Midway along Ireland’s Atlantic Coast lies the Burren, an otherworldly landscape whose mesmerising limestone formations have ...

Senior Vice President and Director of Research, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas The "shale revolution" has stimulated tremendous production of oil and natural gas in the United States. The ...

Dan Eberhart is CEO of Canary, LLC. Don’t bet against America’s shale producers. Every oil market analyst should know this by now, but many still can’t resist calling an end to the shale boom.

The Nadir Crater is about 9 kilometers (5.6 miles) wide and buried between hundreds of meters of Paleogene sediment, or rock deposited ... greenhouse gases" from black shale deposits buried ...

It starts at Lockwood House, which overlooks what was Harper Cemetery. Originally built in 1848 as housing for the armory ...

The US shale oil industry's shift towards prioritizing profitability and shareholder returns reduces its vulnerability to political influence. Market factors, such as oil prices and investor ...

F ew RPG party members are as beloved as the companions of the Dragon Age games, and there's good reason for that. Across memorable story moments, sprawling dialogue trees, compan ...

When prices dropped, Exxon Co. USA and other oil producers pulled out after determining that further development of shale oil would be too costly. Exxon announced it was shutting down May 2, 1982, a ...

A new study by the Birbal Sahni institute of Palaeosciences reveals significant shale gas potential in the South Karanpura coalfield of Jharkhand. The research suggests favourable conditions for ...

It didn't exactly play out like that. Shale entrepreneurs employing horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracture stimulation and marginal rocks doubled down on efficiency to survive and the ...