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The owner of a limestone quarry above Glenwood Springs has spent several years arguing that its contentious plan for an exponential expansion of the mine should be expedited under the 1872 Mining ...

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View of the three-dimensional map on the Ségognole 3 cave floor. Credit: Dr. Médard Thiry Researchers uncovered a 13,000-year-old sandstone model in France’s Ségognole 3 rock shelter, possibly the ...

The Ministry of Defense plans to build a factory in Estonia, valued at over €100 million, to produce explosives from oil shale. The facility would be partially funded by private investors, but the ...

The Permian in West Texas and southeastern New Mexico continues to be the most prolific oil and gas producing basin in the United States, accounting for most of the output at the biggest public ...

The rankings were reshaped by the wave of mergers and acquisitions (M&A) in the shale patch in the past two years, but the Permian continues to be king, Enverus says. Supermajor ExxonMobil leads ...

Politically connected investment firm Rocky Mountain Industrials wants to grow its Mid-Continent Limestone Quarry, seen in the upper left of the photo, above Glenwood Springs from about 16 acres to ...

E&Ps are willing to pay their weight in gold for a piece of the Permian. Several of the largest shale oil transactions in history were inked there in just the past year. The Midland Basin attracted ...

One of the nation’s earliest and most mature shale plays, the Eagle Ford’s runway is being extended through consolidation and recompletion projects. The Eagle Ford Shale remains the third-most ...