New drilling techniques make it possible to extract natural gas from deep shale rock formations. The advances mean the United States has more abundant natural gas resources than previously believed.

Beneath layers of ancient rock, a high-pressure process is reshaping the modern energy landscape. As fracking expands across ...

Shale gas, which is often found with shale oil but is also produced on its own, is natural gas similarly trapped in tiny pockets diffused through the rock formation. Because the oil and gas are ...

Given that the pore space in shale rock is predominantly sub-micron, ... Shale has become an important source of natural gas and oil for U.S. consumers and industry, ...

The New Albany shale (Upper Devonian) in the Illinois basin is the primary hydrocarbon source rock for the basin's nearly 4 billion bbl of oil production to date, and for an undetermined volume of ...

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.

Impact of unrecovered shale gas reserve on methane emissions from abandoned shale gas wells. Science of The Total Environment , 2024; 913: 169750 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2023.169750 Cite This Page : ...

Shale has complex chemical and physical characteristics that make fluid flow through rock extremely complex and difficult to both measure and model. Researchers are now building new tools to ...

Major players in the shale gas market are Royal Dutch Shell PLC, Exxon Mobil Corporation, PetroChina Company Limited, ConocoPhillips, Chevron Corporation, Antero Resources, Anadarko Petroleum ...