Fuxing oilfield in the Sichuan Basin, the first shale oilfield in the country's southwestern region. [Photo/Sinopec] China has achieved a significant milestone in shale oil exploration with the ...

In 2008, the high oil prices had helped kickstart the shale oil industry in the US. Something similar may be happening now.

The combined company expects $1 billion in annual pre-tax synergies and will hold the largest drilling inventory in the ...

The conflict in the Middle East is driving oil prices up in a midterm year when Americans are already focused on high energy bills.

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The Huayuan biota fills a gap in the fossil record that has made it difficult to study recovery after the Sinsk event. With ...

Coterra merger as shale consolidation, energy markets and antitrust policy collide in a shifting oil and gas landscape.

In a visit to South Texas, the Energy secretary praised LNG-export workers while acknowledging bumps in the industry's outlook.

US fracking companies are increasingly sending their idle equipment overseas, finding new markets abroad as growth slows in ...

The skull pieces sit in the rock like a faint fingerprint, the kind you could walk past in the Kimberley heat and never ...

In A Nutshell A key prehistoric fossil loaned out from an Australian museum in 1984 was missing for 40 years before being rediscovered mislabeled in a California university collection. What scientists ...

The extraction of gas and oil by fracking—large-scale fracturing of underground rocks by injecting water, sand and ...