The first Ohio shale well in the Utica and Marcellus Shale formations was drilled in February 2011. In the short time since, the formations have attracted some $64 billion in private sector investment ...

QEP Resources discussed its geo-physical model for the Lower Spraberry Shale formation in the Midland Basin. Frac barriers within the formation may yield several independent producing benches (a ...

Dr. JeFreda R. Brown is a financial consultant, Certified Financial Education Instructor, and researcher who has assisted thousands of clients over a more than two-decade career. She is the CEO of ...

Scientists have distilled the current state of knowledge regarding the multi-scale flow processes occurring during shale gas extraction. This know-how is deemed essential for improving gas recovery ...

A look back on the formation of the Marcellus Shale gas play, and the development of the gas industry in Pennsylvania Though there were a few hesitant stabs before 2008, the gas industry didn’t start ...

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 ...

Big oil discoveries in shale formations have made the Permian Basin in West Texas the hottest oil play in the U.S. despite low oil prices. Brittany Sowacke Bloomberg News In a troubled oil world, the ...

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 ...

Cairn seeks to hire American experts to enhance India's shale sector, aiming for a major output increase amid rising crude ...