As the amount of oil and natural gas being produced by hydraulic fracturing (or fracing, as it’s better known) continues to grow, so do the demands the process places on natural resources like water and sand – the key constituents of frac fluid. And although chemical additives – the t

For US oil refiners, the shale oil revolution our country is seeing is a bit of a good news/bad news situation. The US Energy Information Administration (EIA) announced in June that total US crude oil production had reached its highest point in 26 years: an average of 8.4 million barr

Just in time for football season, we’ve created a mock league you can follow based on the country’s top shale plays. All you have to do is visit Canary’s Facebook page each week to see how these match-ups turn out, and return to this site to check out your favorite plays’ football sta

Much like scores of political hopefuls before him, Presidential candidate Barack Obama rode to power on the campaign promise of bipartisanship.  In office, however, his attempts at finding common ground have often been less than successful.  Although the reasons why vary, both parties

We recently sat down with noted shale geologist Dan Steward to get some first-hand insight in inside the industry from some of the earliest days in shale gas.  Steward was part of the pioneering team with Mitchell Energy that revolutionized the shale gas industry, beginning with the B