Moving into the next boom time for the domestic U.S. oil and gas business doesn’t necessarily mean you will be repeating the outcomes of the last one. That’s a point of confusion my previous ...

Beneath layers of ancient rock, a high-pressure process is reshaping the modern energy landscape. As fracking expands across ...

Fracking for oil has helped create a huge boom in U.S. oil production that has reshaped the global energy landscape. The EIA recently said fracking now makes up more than half of U.S. oil output ...

The Monterey formation is geologically complex, a brittle shale rock that has been broken and scrambled for millenniums. Oil in the shale, formed by the remains of ancient plants and animals, is ...

Proppant-sand quietly became a significant and expensive ingredient of fracking recipes in the shale revolution. But new data from shale wells that used smaller proppant-sand has revealed a ...

Chevron announced in December 2019 that it would write down up to $11 billion in shale gas assets. The oil and gas industry shed more than 100,000 jobs last year, and a report by Deloitte warned ...

Fracking has been an “unmitigated disaster” for shale companies themselves, according to a prominent former shale executive. “The shale gas revolution has frankly been an unmitigated ...

Oil tech firms see shale resurrection with re-fracking Cheap re-fracking key to pursuit of new revolution By Collin Eaton , Business Reporter, Houston Chronicle Updated Aug 15, 2015 10:51 p.m.

Tight rock in shale-oil plays like the Bakken requires multistage fracking to maximize oil recovery. 3. In multistage fracking, engineers perforate short segments of the production casing ...

Fracking is unique and revolutionary. Understanding the mechanics and economics of it can help investors understand the dizzyingly cyclical nature of energy markets.

Imagine what the world would look like today if US fracking technology and America’s wildcat drillers had not delivered the shale revolution. The liberal democracies would have their backs to ...