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 ...
Well fracturing (hydraulic or acid fracturing) increases effective permeability by creating high-conductivity fractures that connect the wellbore to a larger rock volume. It sits in the completion and ...
Relying heavily on information from the advocacy group ProPublica, Stan Cox asserts in a Nov. 8 Forum article that hydraulic fracturing has contributed to the contamination of thousands of sources of ...
EL PASO, Texas (KFOX14/CBS4) — Nearly one week after a magnitude 5.4 earthquake shook the Borderland, experts are revealing what may have caused it. The quake hit Saturday night, with a preliminary ...
LONDON (Reuters) - British shale gas driller Cuadrilla said on Friday it aims to step up exploration and hydraulic fracturing work at its main sites in Lancashire after government estimates last month ...