What is Oil Shale?The Rock that BurnsOn the Western Slope of Colorado’s Rocky Mountains, local lore tells of an early settler named Mike Callahan who built his home in the shadow of the cliffs along ...

A small drilling derrick, a one tower lifting device, drills up to 12 holes down to the shale rock, encasing the borehole in five concentric sleeves of steel and concrete near the surface.

A study estimated that 1.3 quadrillion cubic feet of natural gas lie trapped in shale rock beneath northern England, raising British hopes of replicating the U.S. shale-gas boom.

Natural gas production, already at new highs thanks to shale gas, is expected to grow 44 percent in the U.S. between 2011 and 2040. (See "Natural Gas Nation: EIA Sees U.S. Future Shaped by Fracking.") ...

The two different interpretations are symptomatic of the way the debate around so-called fracking has been carried out in Europe, with the facts seemingly supporting two opposite conclusions. The ...

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The big growth in oil extracted from shale rock means the US will not need to import any crude within two decades, the former boss of BP has said. Lord Browne told a conference in Oxford the US ...

There have been calls in the UK for a moratorium on extracting gas from shale rock. This is a new form of exploiting gas reserves, which is expected to open up large reserves of energy in China ...