Marcellus Shale oil and gas development began in 2004 with little fanfare except for the occasional 911 calls from local residents who saw fire burning from a flare stack in a farmer's field but ...

Premier Blaine Higgs's plan to revive shale gas development is in jeopardy after three People's Alliance MLAs signalled they could vote against legislation that would exempt some regions from a ...

Shale gas has become a cornerstone of the global energy transition, supplying large amounts of natural gas through horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing. But a new scientific review warns that ...

Two workshops were held to discuss claims about the levels and types of risk posed by shale gas development and about the adequacy of existing governance procedures.Participants from engineering, ...

Lead researcher Robert Howarth, a professor of ecology at the university in Ithaca, N.Y., said his team came to that conclusion after studying the carbon dioxide emitted from burning natural gas and ...

The company will spend $5.2 billion in equity purchases, and take on $2.33 billion in Aethon's debt. Mitsubishi said that the investment will strengthen the earnings base of the company's natural gas ...

Southwest China’s Guizhou province will soon emerge as the country’s second largest shale gas-producing province as local authorities step up efforts to boost exploration and development at the Zhenan ...

Preface -- Abstract -- Introduction and background. Basic geology. Geologic framework ; Geologic structure ; Formation of black shale ; Marcellus boundaries -- Petroleum and natural gas formation.

The Natural Gas Subcommittee of the Secretary of Energy Advisory Board has published its 90-day interim report (PDF) on “Improving the Safety and Environmental Performance of Hydraulic Fracturing”. It ...

Exploration giant PetroChina has sanctioned an overall development plan (ODP) for extracting shale gas at Yang 101 block in the southern part of the Sichuan basin, in southwestern China, with ...