Argentine President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner announced on Tuesday that YPF energy company had made a large shale oil ... US Energy Information Administration, Argentina's proved petroleum ...

The object of their attention is oil shale, a rock so rich in an oil-like substance that certain pieces will ignite when held up to a flame. Piceance Creek runs through lands that are part of the ...

The gas reserves in ... complexity of the shale gas basins hasn't been fully appreciated so the opportunity has been hyped," he told the BBC. This is very different from the US, where big deposits ...