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The oil shale industry created a boom in western Garfield County in the late 1970s and early 1980s, until 1982, when falling oil prices prompted Exxon to close its facility on May 2, 1982, "Black ...

Energy giant ExxonMobil has again retreated from the oil-shale business, this time far more quietly than its exit in 1982. The company in November notified the Bureau of Land Management that it was ...

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 ...

Over decades, America's shale oil and gas wells will decline. Companies have been exploring opportunities abroad, as there ...

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 & ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his extensive derivative trading expertise, Adam is an expert in economics and ...

Sinopec's Jiyang shale oil base in Shandong Province produces 2 million tons of crude oil. Photo: China Media Group. A major ...