Shale drilling’s hot growth turned the U.S. into the world’s largest oil producer over the last decade. Now oil buried beneath the world’s oceans is expected to drive growth. Offshore ...

EAST SPENCER — After 125 years in business as a brick plant, what is now General Shale brick will cease operations on April 1, with a loss of 65 jobs. The Tennesse-based General Shale bought ...

Their homes and businesses have burned to the ground, and a growing number of lives ... by what happens here: Shale gas drilling contributes to a climate where wildfires occur more frequently ...

In fact, the shale revolution reignited the US oil and ... where the true vertical depth is 8520 ft below ground level. Then continued as a lateral at 65° to the vertical, for about 4,300 feet.

Fracking-the high-pressure injection of water, chemicals and sand into shale deposits to release the ... groundwater as a result of erosion from ground disturbances, spills and releases of ...