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

American companies seek opportunities in Venezuela, the Middle East and Australia as domestic shale output plateaus ...

Picture is as murky as a barrel of oil, with US companies in 2026 expecting their first production drop in four years ...

U.S. fracking of oil shale is a world game changer that ignites the imagination with possible benefits. This source of abundant, lower cost energy, most of which is in the United States raises the ...

Labour plans to introduce a “total ban” on fracking this autumn, replacing the current moratorium with permanent legislation. Experts say the U.K.’s complex geology makes large-scale fracking unviable ...

Never bet against America’s oil and natural gas engineers. About two decades ago, these engineers delivered the shale oil and natural gas revolution. After many years of trying to figure out how to ...

A Special Report released by the Heritage Foundation in April 2025 has found that New York’s decision to ban the process of hydraulic fracturing (commonly known as “fracking”) for natural gas in 2010 ...

Scientists studying Jurassic rocks in China found that cyclical changes in Earth's orbit affected not only the climate, but ...

The internet is filled with claims that oil is undervalued compared to, for example, gold prices, the stock market, historical levels and so forth, even as the President calls for prices to fall ...