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

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

Colorado’s Mancos formation has just received new estimates that says it contains significantly more shale natural gas than previous estimates foretold, according to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).

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 ...

Proven oil reserve is equal to rest of the world combined. Nov. 13, 2012 -- Drillers in Utah and Colorado are poking into a massive shale deposit trying to find a way to unlock oil reserves that are ...

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 ...

If you have drilled a well in Louisiana since the 1940s, then you are familiar with the Cotton Valley formation. For the rest of the population, the Cotton Valley is a natural gas producing formation ...

Federal energy authorities have slashed by 96% the estimated amount of recoverable oil buried in California’s vast Monterey Shale deposits, deflating its potential as a national “black gold mine” of ...

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 ...

California's shale oil payday has been overstated by 96 percent, say officials. Pump jacks and wells are seen in an oil field on the Monterey Shale formation where gas and oil extraction using ...

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 ...