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.

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

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

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

BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) -Drilling and fracking activity in Argentina's Vaca Muerta, the world's fourth-largest unconventional ...

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

North Yorkshire anti-fracking campaigners have called on the government to ban new onshore oil and gas extraction following ...

The two largest U.S. energy firms, Chevron Corp and Exxon Mobil Corp , have increased their share of campaign donations to Democrats this year, according to latest filings, amid a looming battle over ...

Britain's Labour government plans to permanently ban fracking, a highly controversial method of extracting fossil fuels, due ...

An 8% weekly loss is a rare occurrence in oil markets, especially if it comes on the back of five straight daily declines.

The UK government will introduce a complete ban on fracking, putting an end to the controversial practice that has been put ...