shale

Devon combined the innovation with horizontal drilling—and helped unleash the shale revolution that turned the U.S. into the world’s top producer of oil and natural gas.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026

Before the conflict, Saudi Arabia was the world’s No. 1 crude-oil exporter, with the U.S. nipping at its heels after the yearslong boost in production following the shale revolution.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 14, 2026

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

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026

De la Espriella’s ideological kinsman, Argentine President Javier Milei, is pushing for more oil output, focusing on his country’s massive Vaca Muerta shale deposit.

From Barron's ● Jun. 22, 2026

He left the road and took a trail that cut directly to the cliffs, winding up the chalky gray hill where the mesa plateau ended in crumbling shale above the red clay flats.

From "Ceremony:" by Leslie Marmon Silko

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

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

From Science Magazine ● Sep. 27, 2023

The series of sandy shales and sandstones which, as Downton sandstones and Ledbury shales, form a transition to the Old Red Sandstone are quarried at Dymock.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 2 "Gloss" to "Gordon, Charles George" by Various