Torchlight Energy Resources (ticker symbol: TRCH) is a publicly-traded oil and gas company with headquarters in Houston, Texas. The Company’s stock is currently traded on the OTCBB.

The top 5 emerging countries contributed $32.6 billion to the global natural gas production industry in 2011, with a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of -4.2% between 2007 and 2011.

Hydraulic fracturing is the propagation of fractures in a rock layer caused by the presence of a pressurized fluid.

Thelma Gutierrez from CNN discusses the oil boom in Stanley, North Dakota.

Williston, N.D., has plenty of jobs to go around, but workers have no place to live, CNN’s Kate Bolduan reports.

North Dakotan farmers are becoming millionaires in an oil and gas rush that is having a positive economic effect on the state.

A shale formation under western North Dakota holds the biggest continuous oil deposit in the lower 48 states, (U.S. Geographical Survey).

The story of a good old fashioned oil boom, right here in the U.S. with USCG proven reserves of twice the reserves of Saudi Arabia.