America’s prolific shale basins are running out of their best wells, but Argentina’s Vaca Muerta is just getting started. Will pro-business regulation be enough to start a shale boom there?

China has confirmed the discovery of two major shale oil fields, one apiece in the Bohai Bay basin and Northern Jiangsu basin, marking a breakthrough in the country’s unconventional oil exploration.

China’s authorities have certified 1.3 billion barrels of new reserves at Sinopec’s two shale plays in the eastern part of the country, the Chinese state-controlled giant said on Monday.

Senior Vice President and Director of Research, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas The "shale revolution" has stimulated tremendous production of oil and natural gas in the United States. The ...

Xinxing's shale formations are buried 2,900 metres to 4,000 metres below the surface and those of Qintong, 3,430 metres to 4,560 metres deep. Both fields tested high single-well production with ...

Creative Commons (CC): This is a Creative Commons license. Attribution (BY): Credit must be given to the creator. Drilling fluid is an essential component that helps keep the wellbore stable during ...

Three new permits have been submitted for horizontal drilling in the once booming Fayetteville Shale play. Flywheel Energy Development, an Oklahoma City-based private oil and gas exploration and ...

Once a relatively rare presence in the US oil industry, firms overseeing the assets of ultra-rich families — including the billionaire dynasties of George Soros and Carlos Slim — are pouring money ...

UK supermajor BP has discovered that some of its US shale oil reservoirs are unexpectedly being “recharged”, offering a potential route to significantly increase profits at its BPX Energy ...

US oil producers are not going to rush back into Russia following any peace agreement between Moscow and Kyiv because they have been badly burnt in the past, according to US shale magnate Harold Hamm.

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