Retaining quality talent is a crucial part of running any business in the modern world. After all, how do you expect to succeed in fulfilling the goals you have for your business if you can’t rely on your team to execute the necessary steps? Since the concept is so simple, you’d think more business owners and managers would have figured[...]

You’d be hard pressed to find a more hotly debated or thoroughly discussed issue than shale oil. Activists say it’s ruining the environment, loyalists say it’s making the U.S. the new Saudi Arabia, and a whole lot of people in between know little to nothing about it. In an effort to delve deeper into the fundamental facts of the industry,[...]

As hydraulic fracturing, also known colloquially as “fracking,” has become more prevalent in the use of shale drilling across the United States, worries of ground water contamination due to domestic crude production have been at an all-time high. Residents living in close proximity to shale wells have reported various contaminations of their water supplies, most notably from methane and other[...]

Every revolution has its doubters, and the shale revolution is no different. For each of the shale boom’s enthusiastic supporters, there is an equally enthusiastic naysayer claiming that it will bust tomorrow and come crashing down. To make matters worse, there is little concrete data with which to measure the boom’s trajectory, and objective analyses of the situation are few[...]