The development of "oil shale" (not to be confused with "shale oil") and "tar sands" has been shown to be environmentally destructive, and water and energy intensive. Extracting oil from U.S. public ...

Goehring & Rozencwajg: U.S. shale production peaked in late 2023 and is now declining. Geological depletion rather than market dynamics poses the biggest challenge. Novel technologies like CO2 ...

America would not be the nation it is today without its vast stores of natural resources. Coal, timber, oil and natural gas ...

The next great American oil boom may not come from discovering a new basin. It may come from recovering more oil from fields ...

Recent discussions regarding the advent of a peak in global crude oil production generally fail to address the potential of America's rich, massive oil shale resources to augment petroleum supplies.