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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Fracking wastewater, a byproduct of natural gas extraction, contains significant lithium concentrations, a critical component in renewable energy technologies and electric vehicle batteries.

Fracking can be dated back to the 1860s but became dominant in US oil and gas production in the 2000s. Horizontal drilling and fracking as a combined technique grew in popularity in part because it ...

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 ...