Stimulation techniques are used to encourage production to flow from the reservoir rocks. Hydrocarbons are located in the spaces between pores of reservoir rock. Production is achieved when these pore ...

Russell McLendon is a science writer with expertise in the natural environment, humans, and wildlife. He holds degrees in journalism and environmental anthropology. In the 1953 Looney Tunes cartoon ...

Tucked inside the Senate bill aimed at cracking down on oil drillers after the Gulf spill is a long-sought measure to protect groundwater from natural gas drilling. The bill, called The Clean Energy ...

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 ...

Hydraulic fracturing, commonly referred to as “fracking,” is a process of extracting natural gas and oil from several miles deep beneath the Earth’s surface. Over the past decade, fracking has ...

Leuz and his co-authors, Pietro Bonetti from the University of Navarra and Giovanna Michelon from the University of Bristol, combined surface water measurements with more than 46,000 hydraulic ...

A new article assesses the impact of hydraulic fracturing on seismic hazards like micro-earthquakes, an important issue for the safety of workers and the continuation of mining operations. The ...

From North Dakota to Texas to Pennsylvania, hydraulic fracturing has transformed many places in America into energy powerhouses. But while some see the new energy boom as benefiting the local economy, ...

A fracking well injects large volumes of water, chemicals and sand to fracture rock. 128012869@N08/flickr, CC BY-NC-ND US natural gas production increased by 42% between 2005 and 2014, largely due to ...