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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Dry natural gas production from shale formations in the Appalachian basin that spans Pennsylvania, West Virginia, and Ohio has been growing since 2008, and monthly production has recently set new ...

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 ...

Two wells in northwestern New Mexico are highest producing in 20 years for San Juan Basin A project that will drill the first oil and gas wells in La Plata County targeting the Mancos Shale formation ...

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 ...