Fracking essential for U.S. energy security as AI data centers increase power demand, with nine million barrels daily from ...

For years, fracking has been a hot topic of debate in the United States. The process works by drilling deep below the earth’s surface and extracting gas by injecting a high-pressure water mixture that ...

When it comes to hydrofracking, it’s the fracturing that gets a lot of the attention, but in fact it’s the hydro part of that is particularly troublesome. Even if fears over the contamination of ...

Under the soils of the Kimberley lies one of the world’s last undeveloped large-scale reservoirs of onshore gas, according to ...

Bag by bag—in what Ron Gusek calls giant “super sacks”—Liberty Energy Inc. loaded 45 million pounds of sand in late 2024 from a California port and sent it across the Pacific. The cargo was bound for ...

Fracking can be dated back to the 1860s but became dominant in US oil and gas production in the 2000s. Horizontal drilling and fracking as a combined technique grew in popularity in part because it ...

WHAT’S HAPPENING TODAY: Good afternoon and happy Tuesday, readers! President Donald Trump is about to sign an executive order with the aim of bringing the domestic coal industry back to life. In today ...

Fears that the Trump administration is looking for ways to lift a longstanding ban on fracking for natural gas in the densely populated Delaware River Basin—which includes part of Pennsylvania—have ...

A newly minted bill in the legislative session that would allow the discharge of treated oil and gas wastewater into New ...

Is shale gas good for us or not? Most of that argument has been over the potential risks that hydrofracking for shale gas might pose to water supplies—risks that were highlighted again this week when ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Marianne Krasny is a professor at Cornell University. “Natural gas is queen,” gushed Exelon energy executive John Rowe at the ...