Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... When engineers first coined the term “hydraulic fracturing,” it’s a safe bet they never expected that such an arcane technical phrase would need to be ...

“Pumping the volume of water we pump is probably unsustainable, not just in the US but internationally,” Schlumberger vice president of unconventional resources Chris Hopkins said during a conference ...

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 ...

Gas fields in Colorado soon may serve as a laboratory for testing a different way to fracture shale rock formations - one that doesn't pump millions of gallons of water underground or yield ...

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 ...

Reporting from Washington — As a domestic energy boom driven by hydraulic fracturing spreads, so could strip-mining for sand needed for the controversial production process, introducing risks to water ...

With nuclear energy in current disfavor and renewables as an alternative source still down the road, natural gas has become a favorite alternative. This comes at a price because increased gas ...

Several Gasfrac (GSFVF.PK) investors have been impatiently waiting for Chevron (CVX) to report on its experience after applying the proprietary Gasfrac Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) fracturing process ...

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 ...

Tucked inside the Senate bill aimed at cracking down on oil drillers after the Gulf spill is a long-sought measure to protect groundwater from natural gas drilling. The bill, called The Clean Energy ...