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

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 ...

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 ...

Gas production is limited less by geology than the availability of ... Geologists had long known there was oil and gas in the shale rock. But the petroleum wasn’t worth the effort until ...

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 ...