Irina is a writer for Oilprice.com with over a decade of experience writing on the oil and gas industry. U.S. shale producers are using new technologies to extract more oil from existing wells, even ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Robert Rapier is a chemical engineer covering the energy sector. The U.S. shale oil and gas boom that began early this century had ...

Off Brazil’s northeastern coast, where the sediment-heavy water of the vast Amazon River tips out into the Atlantic, are two very different types of treasure. The first is an ecological gem: a 3,600 ...

Jordan’s Natural Resources Authority (NRA) and Russia’s Inter Rao Ues on 11 May signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to carry out a study on open cast oil shale exploration in the Bayer region ...

The hydration and swelling of shale is a persistent challenge in the drilling of oil and gas wells. Many methods of reducing shale hydration and swelling have been developed; however, most of them are ...

Irina is a writer for Oilprice.com with over a decade of experience writing on the oil and gas industry. HSBC: US shale could grow for the next 3-4 years. It appears that the U.S. shale boom has moved ...

ONGC in cooperation with Schlumberger (which recently was given an integrated contract for drilling, assessing, and carrying out the relevant operations including hydraulic fracturing) will drill ...

BUCHAREST (Reuters) - Chevron Corp, responding to environmental fears over its shale gas plans in Romania, said on Tuesday it had yet to start exploration and would keep to seismic data surveys for 12 ...