Here's the EIA's latest assessment of where the world's known technically recoverable shale oil and gas deposits are located. The number of countries on the list has nearly doubled since 2011.

The latest developments in the world of shale oil. It turns out that shale oil will not be a game changer, because even though there is a lot, there is not enough to match increasing demand ...

North Dakota, with its Bakken Shale formation, produced over 432.7 million barrels of oil in 2023, placing it third in the nation. Meanwhile, Colorado and Oklahoma contributed 165.7 million and ...

Shale oil is not to be confused with another potential resource, usually called "oil shale," which is found in huge volume in the Green River Formation of western Colorado, Utah, and Wyoming.

Oil shale is a type of sedimentary rock formation that is used to produce oil and gas. It is generally less economical than conventional crude oil.

American refiners are relying on oil supplies from the country’s biggest shale basins more than ever as flows of denser ...

The vast majority of these deposits, and more than 70% of all oil shale resources within the entire Green River Formation, lie beneath public land controlled by federal agencies such as the Bureau of ...

A foreign company just backed out of its plans to develop oil shale in eastern Utah, a venture that environmentalists call a "climate bomb." But Utah has indicated that it's still interested in ...

North Dakota, with its Bakken Shale formation, produced over 432.7 million barrels of oil in 2023, placing it third in the nation. Meanwhile, Colorado and Oklahoma contributed 165.7 million and ...