Many policymakers hope that shale oil and gas production will lead to greater energy independence. Deepak Gopinath isn’t so sure. He thinks that fracking is wasteful, expensive and is merely delaying ...

Explore the differences between shale oil and conventional oil, including extraction costs and methods, and how these impact ...

Here’s a shortened version of my op-ed in today’s Investor’s Business Daily titled “Shale Revolution Deniers Face An Inconvenient Truth“: Despite turning the U.S. into the world’s largest producer of ...

What a world we live in. When Chris Wright, former CEO of Liberty Energy, became the US Secretary of Energy nominee, the entire energy sector cheered. Finally, someone with actual oil & gas experience ...

Shale gas has become a cornerstone of the global energy transition, supplying large amounts of natural gas through horizontal ...

Irina is a writer for Oilprice.com with over a decade of experience writing on the oil and gas industry. HSBC: US shale could grow for the next 3-4 years. It appears that the U.S. shale boom has moved ...

Is shale gas good for us or not? Most of that argument has been over the potential risks that hydrofracking for shale gas might pose to water supplies—risks that were highlighted again this week when ...

Jim Welty is well versed on what is afoot and underfoot with the energy industry. Concerns about having enough energy to sustain efficiency of this region’s electric grid seem to be as abundant as the ...

U.S. shale drillers are revising their production outlook for 2024 due to efficiency gains that have enabled them to produce more oil at the same or lower cost. Analysts are concerned about the ...

The team analyzed borehole data from several wells using natural gamma-ray logs, core observations, and geochemical ...