WHEELING, W.Va. — Move aside, Marcellus and Utica shales, and make way for a new player in the natural gas bonanza: the Devonian Shale. Earlier this month, Consol Energy became the third company to ...

Since the inception of oil and gas exploration in New York, geologists have speculated on the potential of the fractured Upper and Middle Devonian shale/siltstone of the Appalachian basin. Click here ...

The shale gas revolution has so far been a U.S. phenomenon. But hydrocarbon-containing Devonian shale formations are far from a U.S. or even North American phenomenon. Geologic forces didn’t follow ...

Devonian New Albany shale outcrops in the streambed on the flank of Hicks Dome, an igneous intrusion that is the center of the highest measured thermal maturity in the New Albany in the Illinois basin ...