Governments and businesses using hydraulic fracturing to develop shale gas could face intense water competition in the world s largest reserves, according to a new report by the World Resources ...

RIFLE — The highly concentrated levels of oil shale in northwest Colorado would help limit the amount of acreage disturbed if commercial development of the resource occurs, a speaker told the Garfield ...

The U.S. Geological Survey recently revised its estimate of the undiscovered, technically recoverable Mancos shale resource in northwest Colorado's Piceance Basin sharply upward, to 66.3 trillion ...

The oil and gas industry is watching with great interest as energy reforms unfold in Mexico. The country has taken the first steps toward opening its energy industry to outside investment that could ...

This is the third of three parts on the potential of domestic unconventional shale oil and gas production to displace oil imports to the US. Through much of the age of oil, production capacity has ...

The survey, which was ­contracted by the US Energy ­Information Administration, (EIA) looked at 48 prospective ­basins in 32 countries outside the the US, found that 70 shale formations likely contain ...

A tenant of America's gas shale revolution is that shale is ubiquitous and uniformly spread under our oil and gas producing basins. That belief has translated into growing estimates of the resource's ...

The Duvernay shale of Alberta holds the most marketable resource of any unconventional play in Canada, according to a new study from the National Energy Board. The play contains 3.4 billion barrels of ...

Chinese energy major China Petroleum & Chemical Corp., also known as Sinopec, has developed a trillion cubic meter shale-gas resource reserve after ramping up production at one of its gas wells, the ...

Maybe you've seen the advertisements from various financial newsletters touting the investment potential of companies involved in developing the Bakken oil shale formation that spreads across North ...