DENVER – Federal land managers have proposed allocating nearly 2 million acres of public land in Colorado, Utah and Wyoming for potential commercial oil shale development.The Bureau of Land Management ...

The US Bureau of Land Management published final regulations on Nov. 17 to establish a commercial oil shale development program on public lands in three western states. Lease sales probably will not ...

The development of "oil shale" (not to be confused with "shale oil") and "tar sands" has been shown to be environmentally destructive, and water and energy intensive. Extracting oil from U.S. public ...

The House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology held a hearing last week titled “Tapping America’s Unconventional Oil Resources for Job Creation and Affordable Domestic Energy: Technology & ...

A Denver court recently decided that the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service would have to reconsider placing Graham’s Penstemon—a small purple wildflower that grows on the oil-shale fields of the Uintah ...

A company with an interest in oil shale development in western Colorado is seeking to maintain its water rights associated with a proposed reservoir on Thompson Creek that would be located within an ...

Sinopec wins Chinese government approval for 235.687 bcm of proven reserves at its Ziyang Dongfeng field, creating China's ...

Among the many legacies of Jimmy Carter, the former U.S. president who is being remembered around the world in the days after his death, is one particularly local one. While president, Carter helped ...

WASHINGTON The Bush administration wants to set the stage before leaving office for developing oil shale, rocky deposits in the western U.S. that could eventually yield 800 billion barrels of oil, ...

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Energy companies are racing into Argentina’s Vaca Muerta shale basin as the Middle East crisis and Hormuz disruptions push producers toward safer, non-conflict supply regions. Argentina’s shale play ...

A company with an interest in oil shale development in western Colorado is seeking to maintain its water rights associated with a proposed reservoir on Thompson Creek that would be located within an ...