A congressional committee is launching an investigation of hydraulic fracturing, the technique drillers use to unlock natural gas in shale formations, asking for data from eight companies that use the ...

Hydraulic fracturing or fracking is an essential technique in the oil and gas industry, used to extract natural gas and oil from deep underground reservoirs. Traditionally, the process has involved a ...

Hydraulic fracturing shifts the flow regime of unconventional reserves to transient linear flow, necessitating the use of straight line analysis technique for extracting fracture and reserve ...

“Pumping the volume of water we pump is probably unsustainable, not just in the US but internationally,” Schlumberger vice president of unconventional resources Chris Hopkins said during a conference ...

Yesterday the New York Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) filed with the New York Department of State a revised draft of its proposed regulations governing hydraulic fracturing in the ...