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The deal consists of stakes in nine shallow-water producing fields covering 108,000 gross acres in 10–50 m of water.

Twelve organizations—universities and private technology companies—will conduct research and development on emerging shale plays and technologies covering everything from digital pressure-sensing to smart microchip proppant.

Regulators say the blowout that killed five workers on a Patterson-UTI rig in Oklahoma was the product of a slow-moving series of missed signals, misleading testing, and miscalculations that failed to control a natural gas influx.

Marathon Oil says its shale fields are producing more oil and gas with less hands-on work from company personnel thanks to a growing arsenal of digital technologies and workflows.

Ranking places US ahead of Saudi Arabia and Russia.

This new development is the first to recover commercial quantities of oil in the UK from reservoirs that are generally considered non-productive.

Trade tensions and economic sentiment take a toll.

As the hydraulic fracturing market faces pressure to lower costs, Keane Group and C&J Energy Services announce they will combine their businesses.

Cost inflation and volatile commodity prices pose threats to sustained financial improvements.

Up to 55,000 BOE/D of output is expected from the ExxonMobil-operated Bajo del Choique-La Invernada block in the Argentine shale play, with a possible second phase producing up to 75,000 BOE/D.

Natural gas accounted for almost 45% of global demand growth last year.

The combination will create one of the Haynesville Shale’s top gas producers, tripling Comstock’s Haynesville-Bossier acreage.