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, ...

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 ...

TOLEDO, Ohio (WTVG) - The United States is experiencing a fracking boom. The Energy Information Administration said the U.S. produced more oil in 2023 than has ever been produced by any country. Now, ...

In a move toward a cleaner energy future, the UK government has announced plans to permanently ban fracking "at the earliest opportunity." This controversial practice extracts shale gas by blasting ...

More of the Leesville Wildlife Area in Carroll County has been opened up for fracking.

All along the highway that leads into this city in West Texas, the rows of black pump jacks seem endless, bobbing up and down as they pull crude oil from beneath the parched scrub desert. The pump ...

Historically, scientific studies have found little, if any, evidence that the act of fracturing a well can pollute groundwater with hydrocarbons or fracking fluids. While that idea has become ...

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 ...