While hydraulic fracking has been around since the late 1940s, it initially didn't prove enormously profitable in extracting gas and oil from rock formations known as shale. That changed in 1997 when ...

Hydraulic fracturing (fracking) increases well deliverability and ultimate recovery by creating high-conductivity flow paths from the reservoir to the wellbore. It sits in the upstream value chain ...

Hydraulic fracturing has occasionally resulted in voter action in the US, but better communication and more information could lessen discord, according to the oil and gas industry. Hydraulic ...

The Environmental Quality Board voted to delay a vote on whether to increase setback distances between fracking and drilling site from homes, schools, and water sources The Environmental Quality Board ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio – A Houston-based oil and gas company has drilled the first fracking well beneath Ohio’s preserved park and wildlife lands. Ohio Department of Natural Resources Director Mary Mertz told ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. The rocky ground deep beneath Southern Illinois will soon be wrung like a sponge to yield previously unreachable oil and natural ...

By contrast, fracking is associated with a different type of resource ... and have not yet achieved widespread commercial deployment. One of the benefits of Hawaii being slow to seriously pursue ...