However, as the easily accessible oil reservoirs have become more scarce, energy companies have focused increasing attention on these “unconventional” deposits. Shale gas, which is often found with ...
and YPF CEO Miguel Galuccio signed the accord on Tuesday at YPF headquarters in Buenos Aires to develop the world’s second-largest shale gas deposit and fourth-largest shale oil reservoir.
Professor John Underhill from Heriot-Watt University said the UK's potential shale deposits were likely to have been disrupted by shifts in the earth 55 million years ago. He said the government ...
The large shale oil and gas deposit in western Argentina's Vaca Muerta was discovered in 2011 and is estimated to hold one of the world's largest reserves of shale-based hydrocarbons. However the ...
Fracking-the high-pressure injection of water, chemicals and sand into shale deposits to release the gas and oil trapped within the rock-in recent years has been combined with horizontal drilling ...
He said the rocks containing shale deposits in the UK are riddled with fractures. They are "like a pane of shattered glass" and will make large scale fracking unviable. Chemicals and oil products ...
In North Dakota, whose own shale deposits have been helping fuel the country’s oil and gas boom, the sector was in the midst of an employment boom. As America struggled to jumpstart its broader ...