EAST SPENCER — After 125 years in business as a brick plant, what is now General Shale brick will cease operations on April 1, with a loss of 65 jobs. The Tennesse-based General Shale bought ...

Last year, Ecopetrol pulled out of a $3.6 billion deal to buy a stake in Texas shale-oil assets from the US company. --With assistance from Nicolle Yapur. (Adds share move starting in first ...

Senior Vice President and Director of Research, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas The "shale revolution" has stimulated tremendous production of oil and natural gas in the United States. The ...

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