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 ...

India's plans to scale up fracking operations without robust regulations could spell disaster for the country's finely balanced water security, according to research. India's plans to scale up ...

KS3/GCSE Geography. A student investigates the pros and cons of fracking by speaking to advocates and opponents.

On Wednesday, the natural gas company CNX Resources released the initial results from its environmental monitoring collaboration with the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection, a ...

India's plans to scale up fracking operations without robust regulations could spell disaster for the country's finely balanced water security, according to research from the University of Surrey.

Adopting next-generation pump power, wet sand, and dry chemicals reduces fracturing emissions by about 30%. SLB conducted a lifecycle assessment of emissions from typical US fracturing operations. The ...

Joshua Doubek, CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons Few technical terms carry as much ambiguity or provoke as much confusion as ...

Over the last few weeks, numerous articles have appeared touting the residue in wastewater that had been used in hydraulic fracturing operations as a potential source of lithium. Lithium, of course, ...

Two moderate-sized earthquakes that struck the southern Sichuan Province of China last December and January were probably caused by nearby fracking operations, according to a new study published in ...