The president is calling for energy dominance, but aging shale plays aren't positioned to deliver a surge of new oil production.

Shale is a sedimentary rock made up of tiny grains of silica, clay and other minerals. Many types of rock have few physical ...

1 Although nobody told Mr. Callahan until it was too late, the dark-hued shale rocks found in pockets along the Western Slope were oil shale. Often referred to as the rock that burns, oil shale boasts ...

The Marcellus Shale holds 262,000 trillion liters of natural gas, enough to power America for centuries. Discover its impact ...

Colombian president Gustavo Petro has ordered the state-run oil company Ecopetrol to cancel a joint venture with U.S.-based Occidental Petroleum that was expected to produce around 90,000 barrels of o ...

The drilling method uses high pressure from a drill and perforating gun system to crack shale rock layers thousands of feet ...

Tap, chip, tap, chip, tippity tap tap tap... Eureka! "We actually split it!" Lakes Middle School seventh grader Alex Terry ...