1 Although nobody told Mr. Callahan until it was too late, the dark-hued shale rocks found in pockets along the Western Slope were oil shale. Often referred to as the rock that burns, oil shale boasts ...

Dan Eberhart is CEO of Canary, LLC. Don’t bet against America’s shale producers. Every oil market analyst should know this by now, but many still can’t resist calling an end to the shale boom.

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 ...

The development of "oil shale" (not to be confused with "shale oil") and "tar sands" has been shown to be environmentally destructive, and water and energy intensive. Extracting oil from U.S. public ...

This year’s reduction in drilling and fracking, combined with the push to max out efficiencies, are seen lowering per-well costs for shale operators by 6.3%, Enverus said Tuesday in a report.

One of the first job creation reports painted a rosy picture. Published in 2010 by Penn State University and paid for by the industry, it predicted fracking the Marcellus Shale formation would support ...

The shale contains largely untapped natural gas ... it tends to split easily along the bedding plane, a property known as fissility. Lighter colored shales in the upper portion of the formation ...

Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. David Blackmon is a Texas-based public policy analyst/consultant. Given the state of other market factors, it’s a trend that seems ...

Fracking-the high-pressure injection of water, chemicals and sand into shale deposits to release the gas and oil trapped within the rock-in recent years has been combined with horizontal drilling ...

Shale shakers remove large solids (typically larger than 75 microns) from drilling fluid. (Drilling fluid is also known as drilling mud due to its turbid appearance.) Drilling fluids lubricate and ...

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