The country is an energy pauper in a neighbourhood dominated by Saudi Arabia and Iraq, which sit on the world’s largest conventional oil reserves. It therefore turned to the potential of oil shale in ...

Watford City, North Dakota, Oil production in the Bakken shale formation near the Missouri River. (Photo by: Jim West/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) eaking of shale oil production and ...

Earlier predictions of "peak shale" have shifted, with US shale drillers now signaling continued growth due to improved efficiency. The Energy Information Administration (EIA) has revised its ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Robert Rapier is a chemical engineer covering the energy sector. The U.S. shale oil and gas boom that began early this century had ...