Shale is physically and chemically complex at all scales of interest. Multimodal, multiscale imaging, and characterization allows researchers to study how to control the transport and reactivity of ...

The minerals involved in the fossilization of ancient life can have a dramatic effect on how that fossil turns out. They might be opalized or rainbow-colored, or perhaps glittering like an ornate lump ...

Today, science can narrow down potential oil reserves with surprising accuracy — especially when it comes to shale oil, found embedded within sedimentary rock. By studying sediments in China's Sichuan ...

In Colorado’s Parachute Canyon not far from Grand Junction, the seed of an oil revolution was planted. Union Oil Co. of California last week fired up a $7,000,000 prototype retort to produce oil from ...

Never bet against America’s oil and natural gas engineers. About two decades ago, these engineers delivered the shale oil and natural gas revolution. After many years of trying to figure out how to ...

Shale industry legend Harold Hamm is looking to pull crude from "Generation 3" rock. This is a tougher form of rock that was largely neglected earlier in the shale revolution. Total US oil production ...

BINGHAMTON, New York (Reuters) - Technological advances that have unlocked natural gas from shale rock deep beneath the surface have outpaced advances in water waste disposal, meaning that gas ...