Today, scientists from around the globe flock to the Burgess Shale, each hoping to uncover new species or unlock new secrets from its precious rocks. What sets the Burgess Shale apart is its ...

Scientists have long known there was also natural gas in the soft rock layer called shale, formed by millions of years of heat and pressure from dead algae that mixed with mud at the deep bottom ...

Fracking, or hydraulic fracturing, is used to extract gas and oil from hard-to-reach shale rock. It involves drilling a well to a depth of two to three kilometres and pumping a high-pressure mix ...

"There is huge shale potential in shale rocks in West Siberia...we just don't know what the quality is," Mr. Tillerson said in an interview with Dow Jones Newswires. The exploration work will take ...

Click around the map to see where energy companies are using hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, to force tightly trapped oil and gas from the fine-grained sedimentary rocks known as shale.

and also to get more out of the Generation 1 and 2 rock." Hamm made a name for himself by applying horizontal drilling techniques to unlock vast amounts of oil in North Dakota's Bakken shale ...

The rolling green hills of western Pennsylvania have been stripped for coal for over 2 centuries and drilled for unconventional natural gas from shale rocks since the turn of the 21st century.

Fracking, also called hydraulic fracturing, is a way to get natural gas and oil from underground rock formations called shale. Shale rock is made of many thin, fragile layers of compressed mud and ...

The drilling method uses high pressure from a drill and perforating gun system to crack shale rock layers thousands of feet underground, where natural gas and oil can be found. A perforating gun ...

extracting more crude than ever from the shale rock that runs beneath the ground in West Texas. After years of losing money on horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing, the companies that have ...