shale

The shale boom turned the U.S. into the world’s largest crude producer, and the country’s reliance on imports has plummeted.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 13, 2026

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

From BBC ● Jun. 14, 2026

Oil prices that have risen $30 per barrel from prewar levels strengthened cash flow for upstream producers, including Diamondback Energy, even though shale companies resisted immediately increasing production.

From Barron's ● Jun. 7, 2026

The shale revolution has transformed the U.S. from the world’s largest importer of oil to the world’s largest producer of oil and natural gas and largest exporter of liquefied natural gas.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 2, 2026

The shale, in particular, breaks into perfect building blocks with the tap of the hammer in the right place.

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

Moreover, the rock types exposed at this site are carbon-rich shales, which Torres says is exactly what you would want to study in this case.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 14, 2023

"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

Such balls, called siliceous nodules or “Rokycany Balls,” are weathered out of the shales of the Šárka Formation.

From Science Magazine ● Sep. 27, 2023

In the western part the tertiaries are more tufaceous than on the south-east coast, and they are distinguished mainly by the presence of shales and andesite breccia.

From Alone with the Hairy Ainu or, 3,800 miles on a pack saddle in Yezo and a cruise to the Kurile Islands. by A. H. Savage Landor