We already know that hydraulic fracturing—the process of injecting millions of gallons of water and chemicals deep into the earth to exploit the natural gas trapped inside rock—can likely help cause ...
Fracking wastewater gushes out of a geyser in Toyah, Texas, in 2024. The geyser flowed water for 19 days before it was stopped. Credit: Elizabeth Conley/Houston Chronicle via Getty Images On Oct. 2, ...
Fracking can be dated back to the 1860s but became dominant in US oil and gas production in the 2000s. Horizontal drilling and fracking as a combined technique grew in popularity in part because it ...
Pennsylvania environmental regulators have found a likely correlation between a natural gas company’s fracking operation and a series of tiny earthquakes in western Pennsylvania last year. The quakes ...
A number of farmers near Rimbey, Alta., are raising concerns about a nearby hydraulic fracturing (fracking) operation, saying they believe its significant use of water is having an impact on their ...
Automation, digitalization and electrification are reshaping how mines plan, execute and optimize drilling activities, while ...
Environmental groups say the pipeline, which was restarted in March, is still badly corroded, and could burst again if the ...