Sinopec, China’s largest shale producer, has reported a major breakthrough in ultra-deep shale gas exploration, with a record-setting well in the Sichuan basin flowing commercial gas volumes ...

The head of the largest independent oil producer in the Permian Basin predicts US shale production has peaked and will likely decline from here as oil prices hover near four-year lows.

Layered shale should be treated as a transversely isotropic medium, unlike isotropic formations where stress around the wellbore is influenced solely by stress concentrations. In shale, stress ...

Oil prices are sagging like a tired trampoline, and U.S. shale producers are feeling the bounce—just not in a good way. With WTI dancing around $60 and analysts wringing their hands over ...

According to a Dallas Fed survey, US oil company chiefs plan to increase spending in 2025. 58% of shale execs said they would increase spending, and 34% said they would increase investment.

President-elect Donald Trump wants U.S. oil producers to rekindle their once-frenzied drilling, but the country’s shale patch has changed since his first administration. Wildcatters are mostly ...

Natural depletion in shale reservoirs is signaling the end of rapid growth. Despite advancements like AI driving cost reductions and improving well output, there are physical and technological ...

Richard Edan / Getty Images Oil shale is a type of sedimentary rock formation that can be used to produce oil and gas. Oil shale can produce oil and gas because of the presence of kerogen ...

Bryan Sheffield first heard of an Australian shale opportunity in 2013. He heard about it from his dad—Scott Sheffield, a more than 40-year wildcatter and the now-retired founding CEO of Pioneer ...

So, Chang7 shale was used for testing the TOC content prediction method in shale in this paper. Experiments showed that laser intensity can efficiently predict TOC content in shale. This method can be ...

On the basis of real-time CCD photographs and AE events, a real-time crack evolution process in fissured shale specimens under uniaxial compression was investigated. The crack initiation angle and ...

Taking the Wufeng–Longmaxi shale of the southern Sichuan Basin as the research object, deformation observations of shale outcrops and shale core samples were conducted to reveal the distribution ...