Shale is physically and chemically complex at all scales of interest. Multimodal, multiscale imaging, and characterization allows researchers to study how to control the transport and reactivity of ...

The prolific Permian Basin distracted American producers from international shale. Now, they are returning.

In Colorado’s Parachute Canyon not far from Grand Junction, the seed of an oil revolution was planted. Union Oil Co. of California last week fired up a $7,000,000 prototype retort to produce oil from ...

Shale industry legend Harold Hamm is looking to pull crude from "Generation 3" rock. This is a tougher form of rock that was largely neglected earlier in the shale revolution. Total US oil production ...

On the Western Slope of the Rocky Mountains, teams of scientists and engineers are working on a feat of modern day alchemy: turning rocks into oil. The object of their attention is oil shale, a rock ...

Researchers in the Department of Geological Sciences and Engineering are exploring how rock erosion contributes to the carbon cycle by studying shale in the mountains of southern California. But as ...