Oil production growth is slowing due to natural depletion and rising costs, especially in the Permian Basin, but new federal ...

Richard Edan / Getty Images Oil shale is a type of sedimentary rock formation that can be used to produce oil and gas. Oil shale can produce oil and gas because of the presence of kerogen ...

Soaring oil and gas production from Argentina's Vaca Muerta shale formation in the first quarter of 2025 is fueling the ...

Shale gas, which is often found with shale oil but is also produced on its own, is natural gas similarly trapped in tiny pockets diffused through the rock formation. Because the oil and gas are ...

usually called "oil shale," which is found in huge volume in the Green River Formation of western Colorado, Utah, and Wyoming. That is actually a crude oil precursor known as kerogen, which would ...

The pessimists are right for now: The Heath oil play cutting a swath across Central Montana is no match for the Bakken. In fact, a handful of companies drilling in this shale formation in Central ...

With “several billion barrels of resources” left untapped in the Powder River Basin, Continental Resources is nearing ...