shale

It started years ago with America’s shale boom, and the contrast keeps getting larger.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026

Traditionally, the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries has used production quotas to move the oil price, with U.S. shale producers adding supply once prices went above roughly $65 a barrel.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 2026

Then the U.S. shale boom brought in the opposite kind — light sweet crude that expensive refinery equipment doesn’t optimally use.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 21, 2026

But the shale revolution fundamentally altered America's exposure to energy shocks.

From BBC ● Jun. 14, 2026

The rocks are sandstone and shale, which were laid down layer upon layer in an ancient sea that existed before the mountains rose.

From "On the Far Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George

National Fuel Gas owns roughly 1.2 million acres in the Appalachian Basin, with substantial mineral ownership overlying the Marcellus and Utica shales.

From Barron's ● Jan. 23, 2026

But, this work is promising because it hints at the possibility that certain shales could be a lithium source that doesn't require new mines.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 15, 2024

"The oil shales are running out of Tier 1 inventory," said Bryan Sheffield, founder of energy investors Formentera Partners and Scott Sheffield's son.

From Reuters ● Oct. 11, 2023

Offshore shales may record how the islands’ volcanic basalt eroded.

From Science Magazine ● Apr. 13, 2022

Towards the Caspian, especially between Petrovsk and the river Sulak, the Cretaceous system is well represented, and upon its rocks rest marls, shales, and sandstones of the Eocene period.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 8 "Cube" to "Daguerre, Louis" by Various