Horizontal drilling and fracking as a combined technique grew in popularity in part because it was shown to increase the production potential of oil and gas wells by making it possible to access ...

The judicial support for fracking means that horizontal fracking can begin at the Preston New Road site at Little Plumpton in Lancashire. Hydraulic fracturing describes a well-stimulation technique ...

A look into the oil patch, more specifically the practices under the ground that pull resources out of the ground, is taking ...

Horizontal drilling isn't new. Such wells have been drilled for the better part of a century. But combining it with hydraulic fracturing to produce gas and oil from shale is a far more recent ...