In North and Central America, where unconventional oil and gas plays like the Permian Basin, Eagle Ford, and Vaca Muerta are ...

Maverick Rock wants to expand its limestone and shale mining operations into Wasatch County – but local leaders say the Utah ...

The need for a geologic hydrogen wildcatter is growing as energy demand rises and efforts to reduce emissions continue.

Tucked away in Huntingdon County, Trough Creek State Park showcases rock formations so uniquely spectacular that geologists get misty-eyed just thinking about them, yet somehow this 541-acre ...

Scientists explain how shale oil-bearing rocks of the Volga-Ural region came to be -- a press release is provided to you 'as is' with little or no review from Science X staff./ ...

Beneath layers of ancient rock, a high-pressure process is reshaping the modern energy landscape. As fracking expands across ...

Shale has complex chemical and physical characteristics that make fluid flow through rock extremely complex and difficult to both measure and model. Researchers are now building new tools to ...

Shale industry legend Harold Hamm is looking to pull crude from "Generation 3" rock. This is a tougher form of rock that was largely neglected earlier in the shale revolution. Total US oil ...

The U.S. shale revolution changed America’s relationship with energy, but how exactly did it happen and how did it impact global politics?

Engineers have long known that shale, the source rock that fed North American sandstone reservoirs for millennia, could never muster the natural pressure producers need to extract oil and gas.