Shale oil, meanwhile, is liquid crude oil found in the tiny pockets and spaces within shale rock formations. In the past, it was impractical for companies to recover such diffuse resources, ...

Viewed from orbit, the largest mine ever discovered in America is 4000 trillion litres beneath this. the Marcellus Shale, ...

The boom in production of oil and natural gas from shale formations became a significant factor after 2008. Greater availability of domestic energy resources benefits the United States by reducing ...

Sedimentary rocks that formed 390 million years ago, surprisingly, help provide the answer, at least for those who live above the Marcellus Shale formation, according to a team led by researchers ...

US oil and gas production exploded in the past 15 years as drillers found ways to unlock vast deposits locked in shale rocks. Wall Street funded a headlong drilling race that made the US the world ...

The term unconventional gas is used to describe deposits of natural gas found in relatively impermeable rock formations — tight sands, coal beds, and shale. To get the resource out of the ground ...

Fracking breaks up rock formations to allow oil and gas extraction ... and other dangerously extreme fossil fuel extraction methods in the Monterey Shale. This geological formation under the San ...