shale

The shale revolution made the U.S. the world’s largest oil producer, and Congress lifted the ban in 2015.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 17, 2026

The acquired gas fields span the East Texas and Louisiana portions of the Haynesville shale formation, a prolific region that supplies Gulf Coast industrial consumers and LNG export terminals through many pipelines.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 17, 2026

Then the U.S. shale boom brought in the opposite kind — light sweet crude that expensive refinery equipment doesn’t optimally use.

From MarketWatch ● Jul. 21, 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

This is made from long, narrow pieces of shale laid on the top of a stone-lined pit like slats on an orange crate.

From "On the Far Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George

Comparisons with pristane and phytane found in oil shales supported that explanation.

From Science Daily ● Jul. 9, 2026

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 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

Such balls, called siliceous nodules or “Rokycany Balls,” are weathered out of the shales of the Šárka Formation.

From Science Magazine ● Sep. 27, 2023

Yoredale Rocks, a series of flagstones, gritstones, limestones and shales, with seams of coal, occurring in the northern counties.

From Sea-Weeds, Shells and Fossils by Peter Gray