American companies seek opportunities in Venezuela, the Middle East and Australia as domestic shale output plateaus ...

Explore the differences between shale oil and conventional oil, including extraction costs and methods, and how these impact ...

Picture is as murky as a barrel of oil, with US companies in 2026 expecting their first production drop in four years ...

A Special Report released by the Heritage Foundation in April 2025 has found that New York’s decision to ban the process of hydraulic fracturing (commonly known as “fracking”) for natural gas in 2010 ...

Labour plans to introduce a “total ban” on fracking this autumn, replacing the current moratorium with permanent legislation. Experts say the U.K.’s complex geology makes large-scale fracking unviable ...

The USGS found 1.6 billion barrels of new oil reserves in the Permian Basin. But the ‘massive’ discovery presents new ...

Never bet against America’s oil and natural gas engineers. About two decades ago, these engineers delivered the shale oil and natural gas revolution. After many years of trying to figure out how to ...

Scientists studying Jurassic rocks in China found that cyclical changes in Earth's orbit affected not only the climate, but ...

In December 2025, an explosion and fire during hydraulic fracturing at an EOG Resources shale well pad in Carroll County, Ohio, was quickly contained to a vapor tank, with no injuries reported and the ...

BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) -Drilling and fracking activity in Argentina's Vaca Muerta, the world's fourth-largest unconventional oil reserve, is plateauing due to lower oil prices and rising costs, a ...

The internet is filled with claims that oil is undervalued compared to, for example, gold prices, the stock market, historical levels and so forth, even as the President calls for prices to fall ...