While the United States leveraged its shale oil revolution to shift from an oil importer to a net oil exporter, the major ...

Big oil’ is more than Chevron, Exxon Mobil, Shell and BP. And like everything in Texas, it changed as the Permian Basin ...

When his work was complete, he threw a housewarming party that turned into a tragically bad pun (some might say metaphor) when the fire he lit in the hearth quickly spread up through the ...

Shale is a sedimentary rock made up of tiny grains of silica, clay and other minerals. Many types of rock have few physical ...

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

Higher incomes are often correlated with healthier pregnancies and babies, but is it really the money that matters?