1 Although nobody told Mr. Callahan until it was too late, the dark-hued shale rocks found in pockets along the Western Slope were oil shale. Often referred to as the rock that burns, oil shale boasts ...

Shale is a sedimentary rock made up of tiny grains of silica, clay and other minerals. Many types of rock have few physical ...

The president is calling for energy dominance, but aging shale plays aren't positioned to deliver a surge of new oil production.

The Marcellus Shale holds 262,000 trillion liters of natural gas, enough to power America for centuries. Discover its impact ...

Fracking-the high-pressure injection of water, chemicals and sand into shale deposits to release the gas and oil trapped within the rock-in recent years has been combined with horizontal drilling ...