The hydraulic fracturing debate made its way to Lubbock last week, with City Council District 1 representative Victor Hernandez raising concerns about leasing mineral rights to companies to ultimately ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... When engineers first coined the term “hydraulic fracturing,” it’s a safe bet they never expected that such an arcane technical phrase would need to be ...

There are great problems with hydraulic fracturing. These are common problems by now in the fracturing realm, from well development to well production phase. I have a few concerns(1) the chemicals ...

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 ...

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 recent discovery of vast deposits of oil and natural gas trapped in shale rock formations has revolutionized our nation’s short-term, mid-term, and long-term energy outlook. For example, proven ...

Halliburton HAL, a leading Houston-based oil and gas equipment and services company, has joined forces with Coterra Energy Inc. CTRA, a prominent Houston, TX-based oil and gas exploration and ...

Over the past two decades, vast deposits of oil and gas have been unlocked in the United States by a late-20th-century extraction-process innovation known as hydraulic fracturing (also known as ...

If you pick up a newspaper, turn on the television or attend a town hall in south Louisiana, a similar conversation is taking place. The talk consists of protecting the aquifers due to the hydraulic ...