Never bet against America’s oil and natural gas engineers. About two decades ago, these engineers delivered the shale oil and ...

With oil trading near $55–60 per barrel, many producers—especially smaller independents—are struggling to maintain ...

The U.S. government said Tuesday it was ready to resurrect oil shale drilling in the Rocky Mountains, a technology heralded 30 years ago to boost America's energy output until it failed financially.

Energy giant ExxonMobil has again retreated from the oil-shale business, this time far more quietly than its exit in 1982. The company in November notified the Bureau of Land Management that it was ...

Another company has given up on trying to develop oil shale in the Uinta Basin, faced with legal battles, environmental concerns and money going down the drain. Estonia’s national energy company ...

Enverus warns U.S. shale is entering a new era of higher costs. Breakevens may rise from ~$70 to as much as $95 per barrel by the mid-2030s as core inventory depletes. Permian shale growth slows while ...

SALT LAKE CITY - The federal government gave its approval Monday for the reopening of an oil-shale mine in Utah, one of the experimental works intended to boost domestic oil production on Western ...

Western congressmen, fully aware of rich oil shale resources concentrated in the Badlands of Wyoming, eastern Utah, and extreme western Colorado, are supporting legislation to remove federal ...

For over a decade, the shale patch has been the engine behind U.S. oil production growth. Now, the pattern is shifting to offshore oil amid tech advances and maturing shale reservoirs—with the help of ...

Even after years of technological breakthroughs, the shale industry still leaves most of the oil underground. At best, ...

Canada's oil sands are experiencing a comeback due to the newly expanded Trans Mountain oil pipeline bringing Canadian oil to ...

A new well in the Sichuan Basin has yielded high flows of shale oil and gas, with daily production of 38.64 cubic meters of oil and 10,000 cubic meters of gas, China Central Television (CCTV) reported ...