ExxonMobil voices caution on European shale

US shale oil 'may transform crude markets'

Mind the oil-sands price gap

The glut of crude oil at the US’ Cushing hub and a strong Canadian dollar are putting an increasing strain on Alberta’s oil-sands producers

Oil-sands monitoring beefed up

The Alberta and federal governments are introducing a new environmental-monitoring progamme for the oil sands, but is it enough?

Keystone debate far from over

TransCanada and US Republicans vow to fight on in the battle for the Keystone XL pipeline

Boom-and-bust threatens unconventional plays

It may be the American way, but the Bakken oil-drillers’ boom-and-bust mentality is no way to run an industry

Bakken oil tanks full to the brim

North Dakota's oil patch is booming. But surging oil and gas output has strained off-take capacity to breaking point

US delivers Keystone XL death blow

The US’ rejection of the planned Keystone XL oil pipeline could prove a turning point in political and trade relations with Canada

Northern Gateway hearings heat up

Plans to diversify Canada’s oil-export options with a pipeline to the BC coast face scrutiny from aboriginal groups and environmental protestors. Fortunately for the developers, they seem to be listening

Canada’s LNG waters heating up

Shell and PetroChina blaze shale-gas export path to Asia

Bearish gas market mauls shale bulls

As North America’s gas-storage tanks near capacity and prices stay low, the continent’s shale-gas sector is being forced to reassess. Is the boom over, or is the market forcing a much-needed correction?

Obama hitches ride on shale bandwagon

The US president placed unconventionals firmly at the centre of his ‘made in America’ energy policy – but will he back up his words with action?

Cooper shale gas’s competitive advantage

Despite concerns about gas demand, international players are taking closer look at Australia’s Cooper-basin shale play

US shale drillers laughing to the bank

Two huge deals, amounting to over $5 billion, show the US shale-gas revolution is not over yet

China’s trek to shale-gas success

PetroChina’s recent Sichuan basin discovery sparked hopes the Chinese shale-gas sector could soon rival that in the US. But the unconventional revolution is some way off

Hardy Haynesville shale hangs on

Even without high-value NGLs to compensate for depressed US gas prices, the prolific Haynesville play is still going strong. Shaun Polczer reports from Lufkin, Texas

Eagle Ford Shale takes flight

Despite US natural gas prices in freefall, it’s full-steam ahead for Texas’s liquids-rich Eagle Ford play, providing an economic shot in the arm for the state