Freeing oil and gas deposits from its shale, tight sand and coalbed methane coverings was first done with explosives in 1865. Using pressurized fluid and ...

As regulators and environmentalists study whether hydraulic fracturing can damage the environment, industry scientists are studying ways to create longer, deeper cracks in the Earth to release more ...

The Stormont Executive has approved legislation that will permanently end petroleum exploration and licensing, including ...

A case argued Tuesday before Pennsylvania Commonwealth Court could test the reach of local efforts to challenge natural gas fracking. Concerned Residents of West Deer (CROWD), a local advocacy group, ...

In 1643, Evangelista Torricelli used a tube of mercury to first measure pressure. In 1897, German mechanical engineer Rudolf Diesel invented the diesel engine with financial help from the Krupp family ...

Over the course of millions of years, heat and pressure can transform the organic remains of animals and plants into crude oil. That's why they're called a fossil fuels — the long-dead creatures that ...

The extraction of gas and oil by fracking—large-scale fracturing of underground rocks by injecting water, sand and ...

United States fracking companies are increasingly sending their idle equipment overseas, finding new markets abroad as growth slows in the shale fields of Texas, New Mexico and elsewhere.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom cracked down on oil producers Tuesday, halting approval of hundreds of fracking permits until independent scientists can review them and temporarily banning another ...

SAN FRANCISCO, March 19 (Reuters) - The council of the Los Angeles County city of Carson, California, has unanimously approved a 45-day moratorium on new oil and gas drilling, a setback for Occidental ...

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 ...