Aspen, Colorado - home to the Rocky Mountains: draws jet-setters from around the globe and presents geologists with a tantalizing puzzle to deduce when and why these beautiful mountains arose.

Covering an area roughly the size of California and Texas combined, the US Atlantic margin is underexplored, but prospective basins along the margin may once again be open to exploration.

After a lack of success in oil & gas exploration worldwide, Chevron and Shell bring new hope for US Gulf of Mexico oil production following two significant discoveries in the region.

Exploration update on the United States as Chevron and Shell hit two major discoveries.

The Texas Barnett Shale sets global standard for the largest active natural gas play in the US; pioneering the industry with cutting edge technology.

The important adaptation of digital publishing for oil and gas.

The Barnett Shale gas discovery, like ‘Spindletop’ nearly 100 years prior, changed an industry by unlocking huge new volumes of oil and gas, this time from shales.

Since the oil price collapse, upstream development spending has been cut worldwide at surprising rates. How is that changing the world of drilling unconventional plays in the US?

New seismic data has revealed a wealth of untested opportunities in the Mexican offshore

While the story behind the Great Sand Dunes is still being unraveled, visitors to this part of Colorado will be enveloped by a geologic wonder and a truly spectacular sight

First Foreign Discovery

Largest US onshore oil discovery in 30 years

On 9 February 1917, geologists gathered in Tulsa, Oklahoma to start something special and enduring, which is still relevant today as the premier organisation for petroleum geologists

Large areas to be made available in Gulf of Mexico

Alluring Caribbean paradise, active accretionary wedge and uplifted reefs. Why are you still sitting there?