American shale producers have more than 5,000 wells ready to go should prices rebound.

The rest of the world is struggling to replicate America’s extraordinary success with shale oil and gas.

After two years ConocoPhillips is pulling out of a Chinese shale play in the Sichuan basin. Fracking is harder than the US makes it look.

Shale has failed in Europe, as complex geology, entrenched local opposition and byzantine regulations have strangled the potential boom before it could begin.

No one is close to catching up to the American shale boom. Here’s why.

Warsaw desperately wants to wean itself off of dependence on Russian natural gas, but exploration of domestic shale reserves (fracking) has so far been a disappointment.