How to Use shale oil in a Sentence

shale oil

noun

• But in 2016, fracking opened up the taps on cheap US shale oil.
  — Michael J. Coren, Quartz, 19 June 2020
• In essence, the American shale oil boom of the last few years is over.
  — Nawaf Obaid For Cnn Business Perspectives, CNN, 23 Apr. 2020
• The shale oil boom is responsible for much of the rise in oil prices.
  — Sarah McFarlane, WSJ, 8 Mar. 2018
• Since 2007, the amount of drilling for shale oil and gas in the United States has exploded.
  — Steven Mufson, Washington Post, 13 Aug. 2020
• And there was no cheaper place to pump shale oil than in the Permian.
  — David Wethe / Bloomberg, Time, 10 July 2018
• Would the government of the U.S. leave shale oil underground?
  — WSJ, 13 Dec. 2018
• Neuquén is home to the Vaca Muerta shale play, which contains the second largest shale gas and the fourth largest shale oil reserves in the world.
  — Baker Institute, Forbes, 13 Sep. 2021
• Biden has not called for an end to fracking, the process used in much of the United States to extract shale oil and natural gas.
  — Washington Post, 10 Sep. 2020
• The shale oil boom ensued, and a number of heavy oil projects were implemented.
  — Robert Rapier, Forbes, 17 Sep. 2021
• But those efforts may not pan out if the price of oil dips below the sweet spot for shale oil profit in the neighborhood of $55 to $60 per barrel.
  — Dino Grandoni, Washington Post, 2 Jan. 2018
• The decades-old refineries along the Gulf Coast can't rely solely on US shale oil, which tends to be lighter than oil overseas.
  — Matt Egan, CNN, 3 Dec. 2021
• By 2022, shale oil and tight gas will account for half of the country’s total production, YPF said in a statement.
  — Taos Turner, WSJ, 25 Oct. 2017
• The Covid pandemic marks the divide between the first decade of the U.S. shale oil revolution and the second, which is starting now.
  — Daniel Yergin, WSJ, 29 Dec. 2020
• Despite the dust up, both parties share an even bigger foe: U.S. shale oil producers.
  — Justin Worland, Time, 11 Mar. 2020
• The focus was on horizontal wells that are used for shale oil or shale gas production.
  — Ian Palmer, Forbes, 27 June 2022
• Chevron's production rose 9%, to more than 3 million barrels a day, due to increased output in Texas' Permian Basin, the heart of the shale oil boom.
  — Katherine Dunn, Fortune, 2 Aug. 2019
• The rise in shale oil productive capacity should keep a lid on gasoline prices.
  — Phillip Molnar, sandiegouniontribune.com, 4 May 2018
• The town and its surrounding areas sit on vast underground stores of natural gas and shale oil.
  — J.j. Anselmi, The New Republic, 21 Dec. 2020
• Russia, seeking to blunt the rise of US shale oil producers, refused last month to cut oil production.
  — Matt Egan, CNN, 13 Aug. 2021
• Now, Schlumberger is growing in the U.S. to meet surging shale oil production and seeing measured progress in the rest of the world, Kibsgaard said.
  — Jordan Blum, Houston Chronicle, 6 Mar. 2018
• Crude oil prices are likely to remain at modest levels, too, thanks to those energetic shale oil drillers in the Lower 48.
  — Tim Bradner, Anchorage Daily News, 13 Dec. 2017
• The price gain was muted as the U.S. government lifted its shale oil supply forecast and weakness in gasoline and diesel markets bled over.
  — Jessica Summers, Bloomberg.com, 12 Feb. 2018
• However, the conflict underscores what some have been arguing for: the production of more U.S. shale oil and gas.
  — Ken Silverstein, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2022
• In 2012, after the shale oil boom, North Dakota moved into the number-two spot after Texas, supplanting Alaska.
  — Mike Hughlett, Star Tribune, 14 June 2021
• Since the shale oil boom in places like Williston and Watford City, the population increase has not matched their official census counts.
  — USA TODAY, 5 Mar. 2020
• North Sea oil producers seized on surging crude prices this week to hedge output, joining their U.S. shale oil peers in locking in a floor for future revenue.
  — Jessica Summers, Bloomberg.com, 27 Sep. 2017
• The process of impregnation consists merely in mixing the powdered peat with 10 percent by weight of shale oil and then briquetting.
  — Mark Fischetti, Scientific American, 12 Dec. 2022
• The opposite has happened in the US, which by one rough measure is close to being fully self-sufficient in oil thanks to the shale oil revolution.
  — Mary Hui, Quartz, 23 Mar. 2022
• One analyst warns of a ‘giant slurping sound’ for shale oil and warned that shale is not a revolution but a retirement party—in 2014.
  — Michael Lynch, Forbes, 16 Feb. 2024
• Here is a summary of the ten countries with the greatest technically recoverable shale oil resources worldwide, based on the EIA data.
  — Robert Rapier, Forbes, 12 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 19 Dec 2024