Irina is a writer for Oilprice.com with over a decade of experience writing on the oil and gas industry. U.S. oil and gas M&A activity in 2024 is nearing the record $155 billion level set in 2023, ...

Shale's next frontier is boosting recovery rates, as productivity declines across major basins and drilling efficiency gains ...

Fort Worth, Texas: A Barnett shale gas well towers over hotels and traffic. The shale revolution began in the US about the year 2000. It made the US self-sufficient in oil and gas, for the first time ...

The US shale oil industry's shift towards prioritizing profitability and shareholder returns reduces its vulnerability to political influence. Market factors, such as oil prices and investor sentiment ...

The chart above shows North Dakota’s annual oil production in millions of barrels vs. its annual ranking for per-capita real GDP among US states from 1997 to 2014 and helps capture graphically the ...

This is your first of three free stories this month. Become a free or sustaining member to read unlimited articles, webinars and ebooks. While working on a project in the Catskill Mountains, ...

In 2021 the Haynesville shale in Texas and Louisiana has taken off. We look into what has changed, whether this surge will continue, and for how long. Haynesville and other shale resources. Between ...

U.S. policymakers have been concerned about the country's dependence on imported energy since World War II. Those concerns were highlighted in the 1970s when episodes of sharply rising oil prices led ...

EAST SPENCER — After 125 years in business as a brick plant, what is now General Shale brick will cease operations on April 1, with a loss of 65 jobs. The Tennesse-based General Shale bought Meridian ...

America’s shale boom once looked like one of the century’s great business success stories. Now some of its most iconic names are in bankruptcy court and we’re not done yet. But while Covid-19 and the ...