The natural gas industry in North America finds itself in an awkward combination of technical success and commercial stress.

Europe, Asia, Australia, Africa and South America are chomping at the bit to get in the race to develop shale oil and gas reserves on the same scale as North America, but have to slow down while going into the learning curve.

The development of North America’s unconventional resources is positively affecting global politics, says Dr. Condoleezza Rice.

What was once a depleting play with its glory days long faded has suddenly resurrected itself as a compelling and growing story in the vanguard of North America’s unconventional oil revolution.

Cook Inlet, the Cline shale, and a play to be named later.

The Devonian Duvernay is an up-and-coming unconventional play in Western Canada, and recent well results are fueling particular interest in its rich-gas window.

Canadian unconventional-gas development has not come to a halt in the face of low prices, but the market is uncertain.

With visions of high oil prices dancing like sugar plums in their heads, oil and gas operators plan a 10% increase in 2012 global upstream spending to a record $598 billion, according to Barclays Capital's annual oil and gas upstream spending survey.

There is no doubt that unconventional resources are changing the game in North America, with some expecting the U.S. to be self-sufficient in oil in a decade. Since 2008, there has been an eight-fold increase in U.S. gas production and a five-fold increase in oil production.

Former secretary of defense talks about international affairs at Hart Energy's DUG Eagle Ford conference.

North Dakota talked up its effective and long-established regulatory regime at the API’s recent workshop on hydraulic fracturing in Pittsburgh.

The pace of change of the shale-gas revolution has caught the industry on the back foot, and it needs to "move firmly onto the front foot" to maximize the net benefit both to society and to the industry, says Talisman's Manzoni.

Onshore companies are focusing efforts on shale formations in the central Mackenzie Valley.

U.S. shale gas production could contribute 22 Bcf/d within a decade.

Seismic data can be harnessed to optimize shale field production and development.