When Jill Antares Hunkler purchased land in Belmont County, Ohio, in 2007, she never envisioned her home would be surrounded by 78 oil and gas fracking wells a decade later, she said. "I wanted to ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Ian writes on fossil energies, climate, and transition to renewables. To many, it’s still a surprise just how big a modern frac ...

Jill Hunkler is a seventh-generation Ohio Valley resident who says her home was affected by fracking well unitization. automation When Jill Antares Hunkler purchased land in Belmont County, Ohio, in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The record U.S. oil and gas boom may lie on a bedrock of aggressive sales and legal “compulsion,” a new study has found. Many Ohio ...

HOUSTON, April 9 - U.S. oil major Chevron (CVX.N), opens new tab plans to increase the use of a technique that allows it to fracture subterranean rock in three wells at a time in the Permian basin, ...

Well sites with horizontal wells are able to make contact with more surface area of a rock formation compared to vertical well systems, which has also added to the production potential of the ...

The $6 trillion global energy industry has undergone a lot of changes over its long history, from the first successful oil tanker developed by Sweden in 1878 to the first mobile steel barges for ...

Any industrial activity near water reserves could, in principle, cause contamination. Isotope hydrology offers a unique combination of methods to monitor water quality and trace the source of ...

LONDON, Dec 12 (Reuters) - It is time to stop demonising hydraulic fracturing. Oil and gas production is a messy, dirty business that produces all sorts of harmful waste. But the chemicals used in ...

Fracking is an extreme method of oil and gas extraction that involves blasting huge amounts of water — mixed with sand and toxic chemicals — under high pressure deep into the earth. Fracking breaks up ...