The Ministry of Defense plans to build a factory in Estonia, valued at over €100 million, to produce explosives from oil shale. The facility would be partially funded by private investors, but the ...

The Permian in West Texas and southeastern New Mexico continues to be the most prolific oil and gas producing basin in the United States, accounting for most of the output at the biggest public ...

E&Ps are willing to pay their weight in gold for a piece of the Permian. Several of the largest shale oil transactions in history were inked there in just the past year. The Midland Basin attracted ...

Since the advent of horizontal drilling and fracking techniques, Appalachia operators have largely targeted the gassy Marcellus Shale play. But the area has long been known for crude oil potential: ...

Key Laboratory of Strategy Evaluation for Shale Gas, Ministry of Natural Resources, Beijing 100083, China ...