The first Ohio shale well in the Utica and Marcellus Shale formations was drilled in February 2011. In the short time since, the formations have attracted some $64 billion in private sector investment ...

QEP Resources discussed its geo-physical model for the Lower Spraberry Shale formation in the Midland Basin. Frac barriers within the formation may yield several independent producing benches (a ...

On Friday, Secretary of Energy and former Texas Governor Rick Perry traveled to San Antonio to participate in the Shale-a-Thon, the celebration of the 10th anniversary of the completion of the first ...

Proven oil reserve is equal to rest of the world combined. Nov. 13, 2012 -- Drillers in Utah and Colorado are poking into a massive shale deposit trying to find a way to unlock oil reserves that are ...

The Shale Bluffs area along Colorado Highway 82 near Aspen is a geological site that has posed transportation challenges for decades. The highway, due to surrounding unstable shale formations, has a ...