Marathon Oil Corp is seeking bids for its interest in four onshore exploration blocks in East Africa as the oil and gas company focuses on drilling in U.S. shale formations, its advisor on the sale said on Friday.
Refracking, the practice of fracking an oil and gas well a second time, is still too unpredictable to rely on as a way to slash costs and increase output during the oil price slump, top U.S. shale oil executives said ...
Colossal reserves of shale gas have been discovered in Sweden, according to a survey published in The American Association of Petroleum Geologists Bulletin.
EOG Resources Inc., the biggest shale producer in the U.S., will increase drilling activity as soon as oil prices stabilize at $65, anticipating a six-week long price rally will continue through the end of the year.
Money manager David Einhorn slammed the shale drilling industry that ushered in a new era of U.S. oil production as wasteful, expensive and a terrible investment.
China will cut special government subsidies for shale gas developers in the next five years even as the country encourages explorers to produce more clean energy such as natural gas to replace coal.
Canada’s biggest banks are on the hook for at least $478 million of the $26 billion owed to U.S. oil and gas firms that bought protection against plunging crude prices.
Oil production from key shale formations in North Dakota and Texas increased by 17,000 barrels per day (b/d), or 1%, in March versus February, according to Bentek Energy, an analytics and forecasting unit of Platts, ...