Fracking-the high-pressure injection of water, chemicals and sand into shale deposits to release the gas and oil trapped within the rock-in recent years has been combined with horizontal drilling ...

Global commodities trader Vitol is exploring a sale of its VTX Energy Partners business, in a deal that could value the U.S.

Shale gas, which is often found with shale oil but is also ... And hydraulic fracturing, which involves injecting millions of gallons of water mixed with sand and chemicals down the well at high ...

Fracking is a process used to extract natural gas from deep underground shale rock, via the injection of more than a million ...

NEW YORK/HOUSTON (Reuters) - U.S. oil producers are grappling with geological limits to production growth as the country’s ...

The Center seeks to prevent any oil shale or tar sands development on public lands, including the unacceptable extraction and combustion of oil, the consumption of water and energy attending that ...

Ten years ago, rising gas prices, spiraling trade deficits ... technology called “fracking” — drilling into shale rock and injecting water, sand, and chemicals at high pressure to ...