American companies seek opportunities in Venezuela, the Middle East and Australia as domestic shale output plateaus ...
The technique, honed over the past 15 years in the US, is now being deployed to unlock hard-to-reach oil and gas reserves ...
Hydraulic fracturing, long dominated by the U.S. shale industry, is rapidly becoming a global export as countries seek to unlock hard-to-reach oil and gas reserves to meet rising energy demand, ...
Labour plans to introduce a “total ban” on fracking this autumn, replacing the current moratorium with permanent legislation. Experts say the U.K.’s complex geology makes large-scale fracking unviable ...
A Special Report released by the Heritage Foundation in April 2025 has found that New York’s decision to ban the process of hydraulic fracturing (commonly known as “fracking”) for natural gas in 2010 ...
U.S. fracking of oil shale is a world game changer that ignites the imagination with possible benefits. This source of abundant, lower cost energy, most of which is in the United States raises the ...
Welcome to our guide to the commodities markets powering the global economy. Today, Houston-based reporter David Wethe looks at how the needs of Texas farmers may help solve a problem for local crude ...
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. David Blackmon is a Texas-based public policy analyst/consultant. Big shale oil and gas producers SM Energy and Civitas Resources ...
Purpose: In shale reservoirs, hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”) exists to create an engineered, high-conductivity fracture network that connects nano- to micro-Darcy matrix pores to the wellbore, ...