WHEELING, W.Va. — Move aside, Marcellus and Utica shales, and make way for a new player in the natural gas bonanza: the Devonian Shale. Earlier this month, Consol Energy became the third company to ...

Since the inception of oil and gas exploration in New York, geologists have speculated on the potential of the fractured Upper and Middle Devonian shale/siltstone of the Appalachian basin. Click here ...

It’s known as the Upper Devonian shale formation and some in the industry have deemed it the next frontier for horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing.

Adds 30 Upper Devonian wells; it had previously suspended development in that shale. EQT Corp. said Thursday that it would pick up the pace of its natural gas drilling program, starting about 63 more ...

The shale gas revolution has so far been a U.S. phenomenon. But hydrocarbon-containing Devonian shale formations are far from a U.S. or even North American phenomenon. Geologic forces didn’t follow ...

It’s a reminder that more than 350 million years ago, during the Devonian Age of Fishes, Cleveland was covered by a shallow ...

OGX Petroleo e Gas Participacoes SA, Rio de Janeiro, said gas flow from a Devonian shale discovery 12½ km from its first find in northeastern Brazil’s Parnaiba onshore basin supported a 20-m gas flare ...

Leiorhynchus kelloggi Hall has been found only in the uppermost beds of the Middle Devonian Silica Shale, Plum Brook Shale, and Arkona Shale. The species is found in argillaceous biomicrites and ...

Black shales deposited in epeiric seas preserve dynamic, bottom-water oxygen conditions as inferred from high-resolution trace- and body-fossil data. Nearly all paleoproxies are imperfect; however, ...

The ravine at Shale Hollow Preserve is a gray, red, orange and brown stack of shale that resembles a pile of papers. The wall, which borders Big Run Creek, mostly is uniform — row after row of flaky ...