How to Use shale oil in a Sentence

shale oil

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  • 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
  • Russian and Middle Eastern crudes tend to be heavier and yield more diesel, jet and marine fuel than U.S. shale oil, which is lighter and more prone to producing products like gasoline.
    — Bob Henderson, WSJ, 5 Sep. 2023

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