Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... When engineers first coined the term “hydraulic fracturing,” it’s a safe bet they never expected that such an arcane technical phrase would need to be ...

Department of Energy’s Kyle Haustveit says hydraulic fracturing could boost recovery rates and extend life of ageing offshore ...

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 as hydraulic fracturing (also known as ...

This story was co-published with Politico. For more than a decade the energy industry has steadfastly argued before courts, Congress and the public that the federal law protecting drinking water ...

The hydraulic fracturing debate made its way to Lubbock last week, with City Council District 1 representative Victor Hernandez raising concerns about leasing mineral rights to companies to ultimately ...

Increased awareness about using a highly technical process called hydraulic fracturing to recover natural gas trapped deep within the Marcellus shale has created questions about related human-health ...

Letter goes out to nine biggest operators of controversial gas-recovery process. From BusinessGreen, part of the Guardian Environment Network Danny Bradbury from BusinessGreen, part of the Guardian ...

Hydro-fracking is a process where exploration companies inject a mixture of water, sand and chemicals into the ground, creating cracks in shale rock formations. That process allow ...

Sometime this month, Energen Corp. plans to hydraulically pressurize a natural gas well in west Alabama, a practice the company and shareholders hope will reap a wealth of profits, but one attracting ...

Hydraulic fracturing is a process used in nine out of 10 natural gas wells in the United States, where millions of gallons of water, sand and chemicals are pumped underground to break apart the rock ...

McMULLEN COUNTY — Chesapeake Energy Corp.'s rig jutted 165 feet into the sky and sat off a rocky road that was a long and jolting ride from the nearest paved stretch in a remote part of the county.

Hydraulic fracturing is the propagation of fractures in a rock layer, by a pressurized fluid. Some hydraulic fractures form naturally—certain veins or dikes are examples—and can create conduits along ...