A congressional committee is launching an investigation of hydraulic fracturing, the technique drillers use to unlock natural gas in shale formations, asking for data from eight companies that use ...

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 ...

The Controversy Over Hydraulic Fracturing 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 ...

image: This is a cross-section of the hydraulic fracturing process. view more Credit: Image by Michael Wilkins, courtesy of The Ohio State University.

While this would not directly regulate the hydraulic fracturing process, it might change the economics behind decisions to drill new wells. Promulgating new requirements limiting options for the ...

Benefits Throughout the Economy Orr documents society-wide economic benefits from this American energy rebirth. “The economic impact of hydraulic fracturing is not limited to the energy sector or the ...

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 ...

Some gas produced by hydraulic fracturing comes from surprise source Microbes make methane that adds to wells' output, study finds Date: December 14, 2015 Source: Ohio State University Summary ...

The events are a new type of induced earthquake that have been triggered by hydraulic fracturing (more popularly known as "fracking"), a method used in western Canada for oil and gas extraction.

Water is essential to the process of hydraulic fracturing. But driving trucks to remote oil fields is more dangerous than other forms of freight logistics. Select Energy Services invested in an AI ...

A new kind of earthquake has been detected in western Canada, one that shakes the ground slower and longer than typical seismic events. These earthquakes, recorded during hydraulic fracturing for ...