Geothermal energy from Nevada's Great Basin could supply as much as 10 percent of the United States' electricity needs, according to a newly released assessment by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS).

'This new USGS assessment underscores the role of American energy resources in strengthening our energy independence and driving economic development across the West', Secretary of the Interior Doug ...

MISSOULA, Mont. — The U.S. Geological Survey has released a new assessment that concludes there are 47 million barrels of oil and 876 billion cubic feet of gas that are technically recoverable in ...

MIDLAND, TX (KCBD) - The U.S. Geological Survey has assessed significant undiscovered oil and gas resources in the Woodford and Barnett shales of the Permian Basin, finding 28.3 trillion cubic feet of ...

About half of what’s known as “the estimated undiscovered technically recoverable” oil lying below federal lands is in Alaska, as is more than a quarter of estimated natural gas, according to a new ...

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WASHINGTON — Until 12 years ago, most geologists believed there were no significant hydrogen deposits underground. After all, more than a century of oil and gas drilling had turned up nothing but ...

The U.S. Geological Survey and Assistant Secretary for Water and Science Anne Castle today joined to release the first publicly available interactive map and geo-dataset showing more than 47,000 ...

Rebecca Stokes, a research scientist at the United States Geological Survey’s (USGS) Energy and Mineral Science Center, will be the first featured speaker in the University of Wyoming School of Energy ...

In a statement posted on its website recently, the U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI) announced the release of a new U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) assessment “identifying significant undiscovered, ...