The New Albany Shale is an organic-rich geologic formation of Devonian and Mississippian age in the Illinois Basin of the United States.

The New Albany formation consists of brown, black, and green shale with minor beds of dolomite and sandstone.

These members in ascending stratigraphic order are the Blocher, the Selmier, the Morgan Trail, the Camp Run, the Clegg Creek and the Ellsworth.

[3] Natural gas is produced from wells completed in the New Albany Shale in the southern part of the basin in Indiana and western Kentucky.

[7] It is hypothesized that the long-distance migration of oil from the New Albany Shale into surrounding sandstones was caused by orogenies occurring to the east.