Researchers find that Earth’s orbital rhythms influenced sediment and organic preservation in Jurassic shale deposits.

The team analyzed borehole data from several wells using natural gamma-ray logs, core observations, and geochemical ...

Shale is physically and chemically complex at all scales of interest. Multimodal, multiscale imaging, and characterization allows researchers to study how to control the transport and reactivity of ...

Organic-rich marine-continental transitional shale is widely developed in the Permian Shanxi Formation in the Southern North China Basin. In this study, shale samples from the southern and northern ...

High-resolution study of Jurassic mudstones in China’s Sichuan Basin reveals that astronomical cycles control climate, ...

Never bet against America’s oil and natural gas engineers. About two decades ago, these engineers delivered the shale oil and natural gas revolution. After many years of trying to figure out how to ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Cuadrilla Resources has suspended exploration for shale gas -- natural gas trapped in rock formations -- while scientists study whether it caused a small earthquake near a drill ...

The researchers have studied the geochemical composition and conditions of formation of Domanik deposits (Semiluksk horizon) in the Volga-Ural oil and gas province, which made it possible to determine ...

(Reuters) - China's Sinopec <600028.SS> and France's Total SA made major purchases into the U.S. energy sector on Tuesday, pouring $4.5 billion (2.8 billion pounds) into deals to buy into booming ...