Chevron’s lease on Hunter Ridge is one of several issued by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to begin a new round of oil shale research and development. As his team began work on designing the new ...
Senior Vice President and Director of Research, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas The "shale revolution" has stimulated tremendous production of oil and natural gas in the United States. The ...
Huge amounts of water are required in the oil shale production process. The water pipeline will allow Enefit to drain more than 10,000 acre feet annually from the Green River, harming critical habitat ...
Most recently, experts said shale oil production would peak soon as U.S. drilling activity ebbed and companies moved operations to less productive “tier-two” acreage. The expectation was that ...
Kazakhstan will produce shale oil for the first time later this year, officials said Tuesday, hoping to boost the Central Asian state's ...
recently praised BLM's July 22 draft regulation for oil shale extraction, calling it "a major step toward opening this important energy resource for domestic use." But other lawmakers are trying to ...
It is a bituminous material containing kerogen in solid form, which liberates liquid hydrocarbons during heating of rocks through a chemical process such as pyrolysis ... technology has increased the ...