The technique, honed over the past 15 years in the US, is now being deployed to unlock hard-to-reach oil and gas reserves ...

The Trump administration is pushing forward a decades-old proposal to open up 850,000 acres of Central California to new oil ...

More of the Leesville Wildlife Area in Carroll County has been opened up for fracking.

Ohio has hundreds of injection wells that store waste from oil and natural gas production. In one southeast Ohio city, ...

Explore the differences between shale oil and conventional oil, including extraction costs and methods, and how these impact oil market profitability.

In the far reaches of Appalachian Ohio, DeepRock Disposal Solutions and other companies pump salty, hazardous waste from oil ...

American companies seek opportunities in Venezuela, the Middle East and Australia as domestic shale output plateaus ...

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 ...

The federal government is continuing its plan to expand oil and gas drilling in Central California, including production on ...

Labour plans to introduce a “total ban” on fracking this autumn, replacing the current moratorium with permanent legislation. Experts say the U.K.’s complex geology makes large-scale fracking unviable ...

The Trump administration today released plans to open more than 1 million acres of public lands and mineral rights to oil and ...