1 Although nobody told Mr. Callahan until it was too late, the dark-hued shale rocks found in pockets along the Western Slope were oil shale. Often referred to as the rock that burns, oil shale boasts ...

Once a relatively rare presence in the US oil industry, firms overseeing the assets of ultra-rich families — including the ...

Gold, silver, and other minerals that sparked 19th-century mining booms could be relied upon to present themselves in one of these two ways, but Western oil shale did not clearly conform to either ...

Normally on “Mining and Refining,” we concentrate ... eventually forming the shale formation. Shale is often associated with oil and natural gas because the conditions that favor its formation ...

The boom in production of oil and natural gas from shale formations became a significant ... the five industries most sensitive to oil prices—coal mining, oil and gas extraction, oil field ...

The development of "oil shale" (not to be confused with "shale oil") and "tar sands" has been shown to be environmentally destructive, and water and energy intensive. Extracting oil from U.S. public ...

Dan Eberhart is CEO of Canary, LLC. Don’t bet against America’s shale producers. Every oil market analyst should know this by now, but many still can’t resist calling an end to the shale boom.

Fracking-the high-pressure injection of water, chemicals and sand into shale deposits to release the gas and oil trapped within the rock-in recent years has been combined with horizontal drilling ...

If demand rises with greater strength than expected in 2025, the oil price rally could be even more significant.

oil shale development, coal-fired power plants and coal mining, and other projects that drive climate change and harm species and habitat. To reverse this trend, besides opposing unsustainable energy ...