Hydraulic fracturing or fracking is an essential technique in the oil and gas industry, used to extract natural gas and oil from deep underground reservoirs. Traditionally, the process has involved a ...

India's plans to scale up fracking operations without robust regulations could spell disaster for the country's finely balanced water security, according to research from the University of Surrey. The ...

Over the last few weeks, numerous articles have appeared touting the residue in wastewater that had been used in hydraulic fracturing operations as a potential source of lithium. Lithium, of course, ...

The newly implemented intelligent fracturing process redefines traditional completion operations. CVX and HAL’s collaboration delivers unprecedented precision by replacing manual intervention with ...

On Wednesday, the natural gas company CNX Resources released the initial results from its environmental monitoring collaboration with the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection, a ...

Adopting next-generation pump power, wet sand, and dry chemicals reduces fracturing emissions by about 30%. SLB conducted a lifecycle assessment of emissions from typical US fracturing operations. The ...

Freshwater use in oil and gas drilling has come under scrutiny in Colorado as the state faces a historic drought. On Wednesday, March 12, state regulators announced new rules that will require ...

We already know that hydraulic fracturing—the process of injecting millions of gallons of water and chemicals deep into the earth to exploit the natural gas trapped inside rock—can likely help cause ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. After natural gas giant EQT expanded its fracking operations — a controversial oil well drilling technique — into the small ...

Ohio's Wayne National Forest faces an oil and gas lease sale on Sept. 15, bringing fracking for the first time amidst ...

Two moderate-sized earthquakes that struck the southern Sichuan Province of China last December and January were probably caused by nearby fracking operations, according to a new study published in ...