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 ...

Extracting natural gas from shale formations can provide an abundant, lower-carbon footprint fossil fuel, but also creates concerns over increased methane emissions. Researchers have now developed a ...

American refiners are relying on oil supplies from the country’s biggest shale basins more than ever as flows of denser varieties from places like Mexico and Canada ebb. US fuelmakers are consuming ...

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 ...

Over decades, America's shale oil and gas wells will decline. Companies have been exploring opportunities abroad, as there ...

Sinopec's Jiyang shale oil base in Shandong Province produces 2 million tons of crude oil. Photo: China Media Group. A major ...