Learn the essential differences between oil shale and shale oil, and discover which remains a profitable investment opportunity today.

The EIA has added the Avalon, Barnett, Dean and Woodford to its estimates by formation of Permian tight oil and shale natural gas production ...

Dr. JeFreda R. Brown is a financial consultant, Certified Financial Education Instructor, and researcher who has assisted thousands of clients over a more than two-decade career. She is the CEO of ...

Key market opportunities in the oil shale sector include rising crude prices, energy security needs, enhanced extraction technology, adoption of in-situ methods, and expansion of shale production in ...

Directional drilling in shale formations is applied to place long horizontal laterals precisely within thin, mechanically favorable target intervals, enabling multi-stage stimulation and economic ...

Extracting natural gas from shale formations can provide an abundant, lower-carbon footprint fossil fuel, but also creates concerns over increased methane emissions. Researchers have now developed a ...

The Shale Bluffs area along Colorado Highway 82 near Aspen is a geological site that has posed transportation challenges for decades. The highway, due to surrounding unstable shale formations, has a ...

As the Q4 earnings season comes to a close, it’s time to take stock of this quarter’s best and worst performers in the U.S. shale E&P industry, including Cactus (NYSE:WHD) and its peers. US shale oil ...