Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, is a technique for recovering gas and oil from shale rock. It involves drilling into the ...

Frac-outs are relatively rare, but Pennsylvania’s hundreds of thousands of abandoned and orphaned oil and gas wells make them ...

Labour’s Ed Miliband has vowed to permanently ban fracking, slamming Nigel Farage’s party as a “bunch of frackers”.

President Donald Trump and Democratic rival Joe Biden fanned out to critical battleground states on Tuesday as the presidential race entered a final, intense phase amid record numbers of early votes ...

Oilfield services firm Schlumberger agreed to sell its North American shale fracking business to rival Liberty Oilfield Services , unloading a unit that underperformed during the shale bust.

Three years after noticing discoloration and odors in their wells, residents in New Freeport are still fighting for clean ...

This story was originally published by The Allegheny Front, a public radio program covering environmental issues in Western ...

U.S. shale oil and gas production generates billions of gallons of toxic wastewater daily, overwhelming disposal methods, ...

Hydraulic fracturing is a completion technique that pumps high-pressure fluid and proppant into a low-permeability reservoir to create and prop open fractures, increasing flow paths so oil can move to ...

Purpose: In shale reservoirs, hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”) exists to create an engineered, high-conductivity fracture network that connects nano- to micro-Darcy matrix pores to the wellbore, ...

The average household electricity bill in the state has risen 31% since 2020, outpacing the national average despite record ...