Despite all the excitement and fear surrounding the development of the Marcellus shale, few seem to understand what the Marcellus shale is or how it got there. Shale is a fine-grained sedimentary rock ...

The world has become accustomed to ever-increasing production from U.S. shale reservoirs. As you can see in the chart in the next section production from these tight reservoirs has increased six-fold ...

Chris Wright's optimism about US shale production growth is unrealistic. US shale crude oil production is plateauing. Weak production growth in Q4 2024 and adverse weather in early 2025 signal a ...

This is your first of three free stories this month. Become a free or sustaining member to read unlimited articles, webinars and ebooks. While working on a project in the Catskill Mountains, ...

Here’s a shortened version of my op-ed in today’s Investor’s Business Daily titled “Shale Revolution Deniers Face An Inconvenient Truth“: Despite turning the U.S. into the world’s largest producer of ...

The global coronavirus pandemic--a true black swan event--has altered the course of the entire oil and gas industry, and not even the mighty US shale industry will emerge unscathed. Employment in the ...

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

On the Western Slope of Colorado’s Rocky Mountains, local lore tells of an early settler named Mike Callahan who built his home in the shadow of the cliffs along Parachute Creek in 1882. He cut and ...

What’s the use of proppant in fracking operations? The shale revolution has occupied the first 20 years of the new century. It has enabled the US to become self-sufficient in oil and gas for the first ...

The shale oil and gas industry enters 2022 in fine health but with some firm resolutions for the new year. As usual, the challenge will be sticking to those goals. The oil shock of 2020 forced ...

The first time Chesapeake Energy tried to buy mineral rights from Diana Whitmore, a 74-year-old retired real estate broker in southern New York, it offered her $125 for every acre of land plus a 12 ...

EAST SPENCER — After 125 years in business as a brick plant, what is now General Shale brick will cease operations on April 1, with a loss of 65 jobs. The Tennesse-based General Shale bought Meridian ...