GRAND FORKS, N.D. (AP) — The University of North Dakota said Monday it plans to establish a new geology school with help from $10 million in contributions from a major oil company and its chairman, ...

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A new USGS study finds major undiscovered oil and gas reserves in Texas’ Permian Basin. The resources could supply the U.S. with natural gas for 10 months and oil for 10 weeks. Advances in drilling ...

Do U.S. energy or mineral companies really want to dive into Greenland to produce oil or rare earths? Here are the answers ...

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) recently issued a new working paper called “The Future of Oil: Geology versus Technology” (free PDF), which should be of interest to people who are following ...

Watford City, North Dakota, Oil production in the Bakken shale formation near the Missouri River. (Photo by: Jim West/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) eaking of shale oil production and ...

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U.S. oil production is setting new records, but the rate of growth is slowing down for the first time in 20 years without an external crisis, driven by internal factors. The slowdown is attributed to ...