TotalEnergies and ConocoPhillips warn that U.S. shale output will plateau or decline if WTI stays near $60 a barrel ...

The prospect of a contango is casting a shadow over oil markets, with the entire 2026 WTI futures curve now trading below $60 ...

U.S. shale has provided that much-needed insulation against global price shocks that were previously inevitable when the Middle East caught geopolitical fire. U.S. shale has become the most important ...

VIENNA, May 30 (Reuters) - OPEC oil exporters on Thursday, set to leave output policy unchanged, were weighing the impact of rising supplies of U.S. shale oil that are redrawing the landscape of ...

Oil produced from shale reservoirs drove record crude output in the U.S. over the past decade, but inefficiencies in extraction often leave as much as 90% of the oil behind, according to the federal ...

HOUSTON (Reuters) -The U.S. upstream oil and gas M&A market is bracing for the most challenging conditions since the COVID-19 pandemic as oil prices slump and prime acreage dries up, analytics firm ...

Javier Blas is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering energy and commodities. He is coauthor of “The World for Sale: Money, Power and the Traders Who Barter the Earth’s Resources.” The US oil industry ...

Shale explorers are drilling wells faster than they’re fracking them, a strong signal that U.S. oil production growth is slowing. Oil companies added to the number of drilled-but-uncompleted wells, ...

Exxon Mobil agreed to buy U.S. rival Pioneer Natural Resources in an all-stock deal valued at $59.5 billion that would make it the biggest producer in the largest U.S. oilfield and secure a decade of ...

A top oil executive predicted that the price of crude would continue to soar — climbing to as high as $150 per barrel — unless the government adopts new policies to encourage more exploration. Doug ...

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 ...

China's first national-level shale oil demonstration zone in Jimsar county, Northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, which is operated by China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC), has ...