Vaca Muerta, which translates to 'dead cow' in Spanish, is often referred to as Argentina's answer to the Permian Basin in the United States. It boasts an impressive estimated 16 billion barrels of ...

Shell is reportedly considering a partial or full exit from Argentina’s Vaca Muerta shale play as part of a broader portfolio ...

Paolo Rocca, billionaire chief of oil-pipe maker Tenaris SA, said expectations are high that President Javier Milei can turbo-charge development of the country’s shale deposits.

The USGS said the Woodford and Barnett shale formations contain an estimated 28.3 trillion cubic feet of technically ...

China has announced major breakthroughs in two strategic resources, reporting the discovery of a significant chromite deposit ...

A recent U.S. Geological Survey assessment of previously undiscovered gas and oil in Texas' Permian Basin has found that ...

Jafurah is projected to deliver up to 2 Bscfd of gas by 2030, yet that would only displace roughly 334,000 bpd of oil ...

You’ve seen a model of the solar system, with all eight planets (R.I.P. Pluto) revolving around the sun in tidy orbits, but ...

Today, science can narrow down potential oil reserves with surprising accuracy — especially when it comes to shale oil, found ...

This report reviews and incorporates new elemental and isotope chemostratigraphic data for correlation of Neoproterozoic carbonate-dominated successions in South America (Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, ...

A new high-resolution study of Jurassic shale in China’s Sichuan Basin shows that the richest oil-bearing layers formed in step with a repeating 405,000-year cycle in Earth’s orbit. The finding helps ...