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Map shows the top North American shale oil and gas basins
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As the mighty Permian Basin slows, Canada stands to rise in the shale oil and gas world

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May 5, 2025
As pain on the shale patch deepens, U.S. overtakes Saudi Arabia in cutting oil production

As pain on the shale patch deepens, U.S. overtakes Saudi Arabia in cutting oil production

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May 14, 2020
How the oil rout could bust U.S. shale patch and end Trump’s ‘American Energy Dominance’

How the oil rout could bust U.S. shale patch and end Trump’s ‘American Energy Dominance’

By Kevin Crowley, Rachel Adams-Heard and Bloomberg
April 22, 2020
Oil rigs stand in the Permian Basin area of Odessa, Texas, on Jan. 19, 2019. In the Permian, America's busiest oil patch, a producer needs to blast as much as 60,000 barrels of water into a well every day, along with sand and chemicals, to complete the fracking that cracks open the tight, oil-bearing rock about a mile underground.

‘This is a bloodbath for U.S. oil:’ Price plunge will test how robust the shale boom really is

By Anne Sraders and Katherine Dunn
March 10, 2020
Saudi Arabia raced today to restart operations at oil plants hit by drone attacks which slashed its production by half, as Iran dismissed US claims it was behind the assault.

Attacks in Saudi Arabia Are a Test of How Much the World Still Needs Its Oil

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September 16, 2019
ALGERIA-POLITICS-DEMO
International

A Quiet Force in Algeria’s Political Protests: the U.S. Shale Boom

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April 9, 2019
BHP Billiton Announces Record Financial Results

With BP Shale Deal, BHP Billiton Keeps Simplifying Its Business

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July 27, 2018
Argentina

Argentina Agrees $217 Million In Energy Company Arbitration Deal

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May 14, 2016
Banks Are Giving Shale Drillers a Painful Credit Squeeze

Banks Are Giving Shale Drillers a Painful Credit Squeeze

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April 11, 2016
Belridge Oil Field and hydraulic fracking site

Turning to Frack Tech, Stricken U.S. Oil Drillers Test New Limits

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March 13, 2016
Handout photo shows Aubrey McClendon christening a boathouse in Oklahoma City

The Final Days and Deals of Aubrey McClendon

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March 13, 2016
Fracking In California Under Spotlight As Some Local Municipalities Issue Bans
Finance

Why Time is Running Out for the Oil Giants

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December 4, 2015
Oil rigging equipment in a field outside of Sweetwater, Texas

Why oil could go as low as $30 a barrel

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August 20, 2015
Oil Declines Below 60USD A Barrel
Commentary

The end of OPEC as we have known it is here

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January 14, 2015
Operations At An Orion Drilling Co. Oil Platform

Goodrich Petroleum exploring sale of Texas shale assets

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December 10, 2014

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