The phenomenon behind this prediction is well known. In recent years fracking, the new technique of hydraulic fracturing, has turned the US natural gas sector on its head, as it has given access to ...

At a mine in northwestern Wisconsin, heavy machinery harvests the white sand used for hydraulic fracturing.Credit: Michael Parsen/Wisconsin Geological and Natural History Survey Descending a few dozen ...

A hydraulic fracturing manager holds a mixture of sand and water which is pumped down the pipes at a shale gas site in the UK.Peter Powell/Reuters Russia's invasion of Ukraine has knocked 1.5 million ...

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Frack sand acts as a proppant during the process, helping to hold open small seams through which the oil or gas escapes back toward the wellbore. It’s possible to use man-made products such as ...

Simply sign up to the Commodities myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. The rising cost of a grain of sand is inflating the price of materials such as glass and cement even as energy bills ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Windblown dunes in west Texas are the latest front in the shale oil industry’s campaign to extract more barrels ...

CAMPAIGNERS against fracking drew a symbolic line in the sand as they demonstrated outside a shale gas seminar in Scarborough today (Monday, April 25). Several hundred residents of North Yorkshire, ...

The sand quarry is planned for a field in Cranage, near Holmes Chapel Plans to quarry for silica sand on farmland in Cheshire have been approved by councillors, despite more than 800 objections.

The phenomenon behind this prediction is well known. In recent years fracking, the new technique of hydraulic fracturing, has turned the US natural gas sector on its head, as it has given access to ...