Over the past two decades, vast deposits of oil and gas have been unlocked in the United States by a late-20th-century extraction-process innovation known as hydraulic fracturing (also known as ...

The hydraulic fracturing debate made its way to Lubbock last week, with City Council District 1 representative Victor Hernandez raising concerns about leasing mineral rights to companies to ultimately ...

Sometime this month, Energen Corp. plans to hydraulically pressurize a natural gas well in west Alabama, a practice the company and shareholders hope will reap a wealth of profits, but one attracting ...

Letter goes out to nine biggest operators of controversial gas-recovery process. From BusinessGreen, part of the Guardian Environment Network Danny Bradbury from BusinessGreen, part of the Guardian ...

Hydraulic fracturing, commonly referred to as “fracking,” is a process of extracting natural gas and oil from several miles deep beneath the Earth’s surface. Over the past decade, fracking has ...

Increased awareness about using a highly technical process called hydraulic fracturing to recover natural gas trapped deep within the Marcellus shale has created questions about related human-health ...

A new policy study explains the facts about hydraulic fracturing so legislators and regulators can make better-informed decisions on fracking issues. The study, authored by energy policy analyst Isaac ...

McMULLEN COUNTY — Chesapeake Energy Corp.'s rig jutted 165 feet into the sky and sat off a rocky road that was a long and jolting ride from the nearest paved stretch in a remote part of the county.

Hydraulic fracturing is the propagation of fractures in a rock layer, by a pressurized fluid. Some hydraulic fractures form naturally—certain veins or dikes are examples—and can create conduits along ...

A member of a Halliburton crew takes a quick water break at a hydraulic fracturing site for Tidal Petroleum in Karnes County. Working outdoors in the heat, crew members are told to stay hydrated as a ...