What is hydraulic fracturing? “Fracking” is a common name for hydraulic fracturing, which is a process that uses a ...

Over the course of millions of years, heat and pressure can transform the organic remains of animals and plants into crude oil. That's why they're called a fossil fuels — the long-dead creatures that ...

Water is a key feature of energy production, both as an inconvenient byproduct and an essential input for fracking. Select ...

U.S. shale oil wells generate 27–45 million barrels of toxic wastewater every day, with shale gas adding billions more gallons annually. Traditional underground disposal is polluting groundwater, ...

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 ...

Villagers and activists express concerns over Vedanta's NoC for oil drilling in Krishna district, questioning environmental impacts.

A Special Report released by the Heritage Foundation in April 2025 has found that New York’s decision to ban the process of hydraulic fracturing (commonly known as “fracking”) for natural gas in 2010 ...

Staff photo / Ed Runyan This photo was taken in early September of the new EAP Ohio horizontal oil and gas well at the corner of state Route 45 and Leffingwell Road in Ellsworth Township, west of ...

When Youngstown / Warren Regional Chamber President and CEO Guy Coviello was asked if the amount of oil and gas produced in ...