Hydraulic fracturing, commonly called “fracking,” conjures up all sorts of images in people’s minds, and not all of them are good. Fracking is a controversial process employed by oil and natural gas ...

In just a few short years, shale gas extraction using hydraulic fracturing has transformed the domestic energy landscape, providing billions of cubic feet per day to the nation’s energy supply and ...

San Francisco--Some of the natural gas harvested by hydraulic fracturing operations may be of biological origin--made by microorganisms inadvertently injected into shale by oil and gas companies ...

Chevron Corporation’s CVX subsidiary, Chevron U.S.A. Inc., in strategic partnership with Halliburton Company HAL, a Houston, TX-based oil and gas equipment and services firm, has unveiled a ...

PITTSBURGH – A major supplier to the oil and gas industry says it will begin disclosing 100 percent of the chemicals used in hydraulic fracturing fluid, with no exemptions for trade secrets. The move ...

The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) and the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) have lifted a moratorium placed on hydraulic fracturing, also called “fracking,” off the ...