US to Take #1 Spot in Oil & Gas Production This Year

The United States is expected to produce more hydrocarbons – oil, natural gas, and liquids (such as condensates) – than any other country in the world this year, according to the US Energy Information Administration. The EIA published an article last Friday on US...

State’s Gas Industry Remains Strong

The average gas well in the Marcellus Shale is producing about the three times the amount of a well in the Barnett Shale in Texas, according to an industry expert. Terry Engelder, a Penn State University geoscientist, said there’s no reason to believe that...

DOE Study: Fracking Chemicals Didn’t Taint Water

PITTSBURGH (AP) — A landmark federal study on hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, shows no evidence that chemicals from the natural gas drilling process moved up to contaminate drinking water aquifers at a western Pennsylvania drilling site, the Department of Energy...

U.S. Oil Notches Record Growth

Rise in Production Is World’s Largest; Fueled by Fracking U.S. crude-oil production grew by more than one million barrels a day last year, the largest increase in the world and the largest in U.S. history. In the latest sign of the shale revolution remaking...

The Globalization of Energy Demand

The harnessing of energy is what makes possible the world as we know it. The bounty can be measured in terms of virtually everything we do in the course of a day. But can we bet on that for the future? The growth in world energy demand in the coming decades will be...