shale

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

Traditionally, the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries has used production quotas to move the oil price, with U.S. shale producers adding supply once prices went above roughly $65 a barrel.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 29, 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

Five hundred feet above the South Col, where the steep shale gave way to a gender slope of snow, Namba’s oxygen ran out, and the diminutive Japanese woman sat down, refusing to move.

From "Into Thin Air" by Jon Krakauer

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

The discovery was made at Lavernock Point, close to Cardiff and Penarth, where the cliffs of dark-coloured shales and limestones document ancient shallow seas.

From Science Daily ● May 30, 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

Offshore shales may record how the islands’ volcanic basalt eroded.

From Science Magazine ● Apr. 13, 2022

Sandstones full of false-bedding were probably accumulated more rapidly than finely-laminated shales or clays.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6 "Geodesy" to "Geometry" by Various