Researchers took a fresh look at a longtime Texas producer.

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 ...

Alberta’s Clearwater oil play is transforming Canadian crude production with fast, low-cost barrels amid rising global prices ...

As defined by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), heavy oil is a type of crude oil characterized by an asphaltic, dense, viscous nature (similar to molasses), and its asphaltene (very large molecules ...

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 ...

USGS finds Buda Limestone beneath Eagle Ford nearly tapped out, even as the shale play above it keeps output steady.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...