Once an exciting prospect on the international energy scene, China’s long-awaited shale gas boom has failed to materialise, with interest waning as oil prices fall. Eventually, however, the country’s ...

North Dakota's fossil fuel industry has grown rapidly since the onset of the shale boom and extraction is now 4 percent of state employment. West Virginia, with a strong coal industry, benefits ...

Sinopec has certified 1.3 billion barrels of new shale oil reserves in eastern China, despite the challenges of deep ...

Like the kerogen in oil shale, tar sands' bitumen can be upgraded to synthetic crude oil. Because developing fossil fuels from these resources is different and more intensive than traditional energy ...

China is extending a subsidy program to support unconventional natural gas drilling as it continues to push for new domestic ...

like [carbon capture and storage] for coal and gas. With nothing more than regulatory policies of the type and stringency simulated here there is no market for these technologies, and the shale ...

The bill's proposal to delink petroleum operations from mining is expected to bring in more investments into the sector.