G-7 leaders made some impressive-sounding climate comments at the end of their recent summit, but their rhetoric masks a deeper problem.

National interests and concerns over sovereignty threaten to scupper plans for a European energy union.

A bearish crude market is wreaking havoc on governments whose budgets rely on oil revenues.

The Vaca Muerta shale play could remake Argentina’s energy landscape. And Argentina’s political class may finally be ready to fully take advantage of it.

Gazprom Neft thinks it can frack Siberian shale even without Western help.

An independent look at a potential “world class” oil discovery in southeast England says it may be even bigger than we thought.

Oil executives are bemoaning Europe’s anti-shale regulations, but those aren’t the only things holding back a boom on the continent.

A new study finds no evidence to link fracking to any “widespread, systemic impact on drinking water.”

Thanks to data analytics the U.S. is fracking smarter, not harder, giving it the potential to outlast OPEC’s price war.

China’s CNPC reportedly moved from the “preparation phase” to the “execution phase” of a gas pipeline to Russia.