The team analyzed borehole data from several wells using natural gamma-ray logs, core observations, and geochemical ...

A new geological study finds Texas’ Permian Basin holds 1.6 billion barrels of undiscovered oil and vast natural gas ...

Researchers find that Earth’s orbital rhythms influenced sediment and organic preservation in Jurassic shale deposits.

The Shale Bluffs area along Colorado Highway 82 near Aspen is a geological site that has posed transportation challenges for decades. The highway, due to surrounding unstable shale formations, has a ...

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

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 ...

Japanese trading house Mitsubishi Corp said on Friday it would take over the U.S. shale production of Aethon Energy Management for $7.53 billion including debt.

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 ...

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 ...

Argentina has overtaken Colombia as South America's fourth-largest oil producer, driven by rapid shale development in the Vaca Muerta and led by state-controlled YPF.