Four miles beneath the Permian Basin's arid Texas terrain, advanced drilling has revealed 1.6 billion barrels of oil locked ...

The Shale Bluffs area along Colorado Highway 82 near Aspen is a geological site that has posed transportation challenges for decades. The highway, due to surrounding unstable shale formations, has a ...

Organic-rich marine-continental transitional shale is widely developed in the Permian Shanxi Formation in the Southern North China Basin. In this study, shale samples from the southern and northern ...

Pathways exist that would allow migration of methane, brines, or fracturing fluids from deep Marcellus Shale gas formations to shallow drinking water aquifers, according to a new study (Proc. Natl.

Directional drilling in shale formations is applied to place long horizontal laterals precisely within thin, mechanically favorable target intervals, enabling multi-stage stimulation and economic ...

Oklahoma City-based Devon Energy and Houston's Coterra Energy are merging in an all-stock deal to become a large-cap producer with a top position in the Permian Basin as shale operators consolidate to ...

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Jan 29 (Reuters) - U.S. shale producers Coterra Energy and Devon Energy could announce an agreement to merge as soon as next ...

Investing.com -- Shell is exploring the potential sale of its assets in Argentina’s Vaca Muerta shale formation and has reached out to possible buyers in recent weeks to assess interest, according to ...