Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, is a technique for recovering gas and oil from shale rock. It involves drilling into the ...

What is fracking? You may have heard about the effects this oil and gas extraction technique have on the environment, but its impacts extend far beyond that. Between 2007 and 2016, oil production in ...

A new method, developed in the United States, could help improve oil output from the tightly packed formations of shale rock. Developed by researchers at Pennsylvania State University, the new oil ...

Hydraulic fracturing is one of the most important technologies for shale gas production. Complex hydraulic fracture networks can be stimulated in shale reservoirs due to the existence of numerous ...

Sinopec, China's largest oil refiner, announced on Thursday the discovery of a new shale oil reserve estimated at 100 million ...

WASHINGTON — Shell is abandoning its decades-long quest to extract shale oil commercially from Colorado, leaving just one major company betting big on the future of that unconventional crude in the ...

Over a century after its discovery, King Tutankhamun’s 3,300-year-old tomb in Luxor’s Valley of the Kings faces its greatest ...

The government says it plans to pass legislation to permanently ban fracking for shale gas in England. A moratorium on the practice was put in place by the last government but the debate has been ...