Shale gas, which is often found with shale oil but is also produced on its own, is natural gas similarly trapped in tiny pockets diffused through the rock formation. Because the oil and gas are ...

The gas reserves in shale rocks in the UK have been "hyped", an academic said. Professor John Underhill from Heriot-Watt University said the UK's potential shale deposits were likely to have been ...

Tim Latimer has raised more than $400 million for his dream of unlocking green energy from Earth’s crust. Backers include ...

Senior Vice President and Director of Research, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas The "shale revolution" has stimulated tremendous production of oil and natural gas in the United States. The ...

Shale is a sedimentary rock made up of tiny grains of silica ... Shale has become an important source of natural gas and oil ...

Mineral and Petroleum Resources Minister Gwede Mantashe recently announced his department’s plans to conduct the first major ...

A ban on fracking in Northern Ireland has been approved by the Stormont Executive. It extends to all other forms of onshore ...

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Cuadrilla's deadline for decommissioning its shale gas wells at its site near Blackpool has passed.

Shale oil mainly refers to liquid hydrocarbons that are trapped in formations of shale rock that can be extracted for refining. It is often found in organic-rich shale and thin interlayers of ...