The EIA has added the Avalon, Barnett, Dean and Woodford to its estimates by formation of Permian tight oil and shale natural gas production ...

Learn the essential differences between oil shale and shale oil, and discover which remains a profitable investment opportunity today.

Dr. JeFreda R. Brown is a financial consultant, Certified Financial Education Instructor, and researcher who has assisted thousands of clients over a more than two-decade career. She is the CEO of ...

Key market opportunities in the oil shale sector include rising crude prices, energy security needs, enhanced extraction technology, adoption of in-situ methods, and expansion of shale production in ...

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 ...

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 ...

Four miles beneath the Permian Basin's arid Texas terrain, advanced drilling has revealed 1.6 billion barrels of oil locked in formations twice as deep as current production zones, alongside 28.3 ...

U.S. crude oil production has overwhelmingly exceeded earlier forecasts and has grown at a much faster pace this year. The U.S. is now producing more than 13 million barrels per day (bpd) of crude oil ...