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 ...

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 ...

The National Energy Technology Laboratory says wastewater from oil and gas wells could help meet a growing demand for battery materials. Wastewater from large oil and gas hubs like the Marcellus Shale ...

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 ...

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 ...

Extracting natural gas from shale formations can provide an abundant, lower-carbon footprint fossil fuel, but also creates concerns over increased methane emissions. Researchers have now developed a ...

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 ...

Directional drilling in shale formations is applied to place long horizontal laterals precisely within thin, mechanically favorable target intervals, enabling multi-stage stimulation and economic ...

In the AI and automation era, the world is in a race for critical minerals, and Georgia is positioned to lead the way with ...

Researchers at the University of Wyoming have published a new study conducting a thermal maturity assessment to better ...

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 ...