Chantell Dunbar-Jones remembers when her hometown of Lewisville, Arkansas, seemed to have oil wells on every corner. The small town, located in the southwestern part of the state, sits atop the ...

Chantell Dunbar-Jones remembers when her hometown of Lewisville, Arkansas, seemed to have oil wells on every corner. The small town, located in the southwestern part of the state, sits atop the ...

A new government study released today estimates that the amount of recoverable oil in the Bakken Formation in North Dakota, South Dakota and Montana (see map above) – at 7.4 billion barrels – is more ...

Oil forms when organic material – the remains of living things – gets compressed and heated under layers of sediment. Some social media users are claiming this process occurs as quickly as the ...

Exploration and production companies should target traps above Potwar basin’s Lockhart formation to increase oil and gas production. Source-rock sedimentology for Potwar basin, host to most of ...

Tight gas reservoirs are characterized by narrow pores and throats, abundant clay minerals, and developed fractures. These lead to severe formation damage during drilling, negatively affecting ...

SINGAPORE/BEIJING, Aug 25 (Reuters) - China National Petroleum Co (CNPC) said on Wednesday it plans for new shale oil production from formations within the area of the existing Daqing oilfield that ...

China National Petroleum Co (CNPC) said on Wednesday it plans for new shale oil production from formations within the area of the existing Daqing oilfield that will help replenish that site's ...