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 ...

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

WASHINGTON (AP) — The drilling procedure called fracking didn’t cause much-publicized cases of tainted groundwater in areas of Pennsylvania and Texas, a new study finds. Instead, it blames the ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio – Injection wells the state allowed to operate for more than six months after a state regulator deemed them an “imminent danger” to Athens County and its people now must stop pumping ...

Editor's Note: A previous version of this article incorrectly stated who appointed Chavez to the Ohio Senate. Republican Senators picked Chavez for an empty Senate seat in 2023. Injection wells owned ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio – A Houston-based oil and gas company has drilled the first fracking well beneath Ohio’s preserved park and wildlife lands. Ohio Department of Natural Resources Director Mary Mertz told ...

St. Tammany Parish has a new f-word: fracking. A proposed oil well near Mandeville — which would employ the extraction method known as hydraulic fracturing, or fracking — hasn’t produced one drop of ...

From a spot on a muddy road in St. Tammany Parish near where Helis Oil & Gas wants to drill a 13,000-foot-deep oil well, only a low murmur of cars and trucks passing on nearby Interstate 12 was ...