Explore the differences between shale oil and conventional oil, including extraction costs and methods, and how these impact ...

Unconventional oil refers to crude oil extracted through new methods like hydraulic fracturing and oil sands mining. Explore ...

Fracking, or hydraulic fracturing, is a method of extracting oil and natural gas from dense rock or sand where traditional drilling is not an option. Due to the nature of fracking, costs are higher ...

NPR's Robert Siegel interviews Barbara R. Shook, senior reporter-at-large at the Energy Intelligence Group, about how low oil prices need to go to make "unconventional oil" extraction too expensive.

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GLOBAL oil markets have historically been prone to epic cycles of boom and bust. Because it generally takes years for a fresh exploration project to yield its first barrels, producers tend to ...