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

Today, science can narrow down potential oil reserves with surprising accuracy — especially when it comes to shale oil, found ...

Researchers find that Earth’s orbital rhythms influenced sediment and organic preservation in Jurassic shale deposits.

Beneath the rolling hills of the Appalachian Basin, an ancient rock formation holds what some are calling America’s greatest untapped energy resource. The Marcellus Shale, formed over 400 million ...

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 ...

Argentina's Vaca Muerta shale formation has seen a tenfold increase in oil production, making the country South America's third-largest oil producer. Foreign investment and major infrastructure ...

Extracting natural gas from shale formations can provide an abundant, lower-carbon footprint fossil fuel, but also creates concerns over increased methane emissions. Researchers have now developed a ...