WASHINGTON, DC, Sept. 10-- The US Environmental Protection Agency asked nine service companies to voluntarily supply information about chemicals in their hydraulic fracturing fluids for its study of ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Ian writes on fossil energies, climate, and transition to renewables. This article is more than 3 years old. Pumping water mixed ...

Stimulation techniques are used to encourage production to flow from the reservoir rocks. Hydrocarbons are located in the spaces between pores of reservoir rock. Production is achieved when these pore ...

A year after Texas oil and gas companies were required to start disclosing the mix of water and chemicals they use for hydraulic fracturing, it remains unclear what is being pumped underground because ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... From rural Pennsylvania to Los Angeles, more than 17 million Americans live within a mile of at least one oil or gas well. Since 2014, most new oil and gas ...

Ecosphere Energy Services processes frac fluid to eliminate chemicals, allowing oil and gas operators to recycle flowback and produced waters. Begun in 2008, the company’s frac fluid operation has now ...

Chesapeake plans to develop a 100% green mixture of fluids used to fracture gas and oil formations underground, Jody Jones, the company’s manager of environmental and regulatory affairs, said on ...

Researchers were able to observe stress changes before and during an earthquake induced by hydraulic fracturing in Alberta, Canada, with the help of a phenomenon called seismic anisotropy. Researchers ...