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Developing California’s oil-bearing Monterey Formation could mean up to 195,000 new jobs, more than $22 billion in personal income and $6.7 billion in new taxable sales for the San Joaquin Valley, according to a new study by economists from California State University, Fresno.

A new study released by General Electric provides some encouraging predictions for the shale gas industry. A white paper titled the Age of Gas finds that natural gas is becoming a focal point of global energy supply and demand.

Bruce Katz, who makes his living by making big ideas accessible to the likes of me, was telling a roomful of prosperous Pittsburghers Wednesday that we're sitting pretty if we play our cards right.

More than one third of the U.S. natural gas production increase expected between 2013 to 2033 -- some 9.1 billion cubic feet per day -- will come from the Utica and Marcellus shale formations in the Northeast, an oil and natural gas analytics firm said Tuesday.

The U.S. is expected to overtake Saudi Arabia as the world biggest total supplier of oil this year when natural gas liquids and biofuels are added to crude, PIRA Energy Group said.

Hydrofracking is driving a major change, and could make the Northeast a major natural gas supplier to the Southeast, according to a new report.

You may have noticed that the US is in the midst of a dramatic turnaround in oil production. This turnaround is often referred to as the “shale revolution.” Certainly the marriage of the decades-old techniques of hydraulic fracking and horizontal drilling had a huge role in this reversal as shale plays across the country became economical prospects for the first time.

The U.S. oil and gas industry added new jobs faster than the total private sector during the year that ended in June, jumping 2.6 percent over the previous year and pushing the industry’s roster past 1 million jobs nationwide, according to a new report.

Drilling and production in Texas continues to rise, putting the state on track to be among the world's largest producers of oil by the end of the decade, a Texas regulator told a Houston audience Monday.

Joy M. Ruff is excited about the economic opportunities that Marcellus shale is creating in the region -- and believes everyone should be.