For almost a decade, Tony Sanchez III was the epitome of a shale-boom CEO—furiously drilling oil wells, piling on debt and hunting quail and nilgai with fellow executives near his family’s ...

Skoltech researchers have studied the effect of injecting two chemical agents for enhanced oil recovery into oil shale. As it turned out, both of the investigated fluids—water solutions of ...

GREEN RIVER - Scientists estimate there's up to 1.5 trillion barrels of oil within shale formations that could be recovered in northwest Colorado, southwest Wyoming and northeast Utah.

usually called "oil shale," which is found in huge volume in the Green River Formation of western Colorado, Utah, and Wyoming. That is actually a crude oil precursor known as kerogen, which would ...

While this ambitious goal will hopefully help fuel green industries ... with lithium compared to produced water from other shale formations.” The researchers knew that the gas field was likely ...

The developers of a stalled Utah oil-shale project once owned invaluable rights to 11,000 acre-feet of Green River water. But for a mere $10, they sold those rights to the operators of Utah’s ...