By Maxwell Radwin Earlier this month, state-owned oil company Petroecuador announced a new project involving “hydraulic ...

The University of California at Berkeley’s Haas Energy Institute released a study on the shale gas revolution, noting that ...

U.S. shale producers are expanding overseas—from Argentina and Turkey to Australia and the UAE—as domestic shale basins mature and well productivity declines. Companies including Continental Resources ...

You’ve heard of geothermal energy — it’s touted as a clean alternative. You’ve also heard of fracking, which is … not always thought of that way. One creates energy from the earth’s heat. The other ...

An active drill site on state forest land in Tioga County, Oct. 2019. The Seneca Resources well will tap the Utica Shale formation. With all the talk of fracking in Pennsylvania during this ...

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

Fracking — the practice of drilling deep into the earth and cracking through layers of tight shale to extract natural gas — was in the spotlight during last night’s debate between Vice President ...

Lead researcher Robert Howarth, a professor of ecology at the university in Ithaca, N.Y., said his team came to that conclusion after studying the carbon dioxide emitted from burning natural gas and ...

Shale explorers are drilling wells faster than they’re fracking them, a strong signal that U.S. oil production growth is slowing. Oil companies added to the number of drilled-but-uncompleted wells, ...