Beneath layers of ancient rock, a high-pressure process is reshaping the modern energy landscape. As fracking expands across ...

“People don’t equate drilling with fracking,” Richardson said. “I don’t think most people understand if you ban fracking, you effectively ban drilling.” STARTING A WELL. Companies start the drilling ...

Given how profound an effect fracking has had on the U.S. economically, it can come as a shock to discover how little we know about it.

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C., Oct. 12, 2010 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Plateau Mineral Development, Inc. (Pink Sheets:PMDP) issued a statement today detailing the fracking process. Fracking is a procedure that ...

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 ...

Fracking, the two- to three-day process of hydraulic fracturing for oil and gas, is perhaps one of the most misunderstood drilling practices, becoming as bad of a word in some circles as a racial slur ...

The two- to three-day process of hydraulic fracturing for oil and gas is perhaps one of the most misunderstood drilling practices, becoming as bad of a word in some circles as a racial slur.Entire ...

The process of pumping a mixture of water and chemicals into the ground to break up shale allows oil and gas to flow to the surface. There are some who question fracking’s impact on the ...

A well-known technique may be the answer to cleaning out a major pollutant in hydraulic fracturing liquids allowing their re-use and decreasing water consumption Type your search and press Enter Home ...

Fracking is shorthand within the oil and gas industry for “hydraulic fracturing,” a process in which drillers blast millions of gallons of water, sand and hazardous chemicals at high-pressure ...

This extraction process requires high-pressure water ... when comparing the water pumping to stream flow, fracking could threaten stream withdrawals in up to 51 percent of Arkansas’ streams, ...

The potential could be huge. A reserve of 1,300 trillion cubic feet of shale gas is estimated to be sitting underground on both sides of the Pennines.