American companies seek opportunities in Venezuela, the Middle East and Australia as domestic shale output plateaus ...

Picture is as murky as a barrel of oil, with US companies in 2026 expecting their first production drop in four years ...

Explore the differences between shale oil and conventional oil, including extraction costs and methods, and how these impact ...

Flare from a well pad near a home in Southwestern Pennsylvania. A bill in the Pennsylvania Senate would withdraw funding from communities that try to restrict shale gas drilling within their borders.

The energy secretary gives the go-ahead to resume fracking, the controversial process of drilling for gas by splitting shale. But environmentalists say it has no place in a low-carbon economy.

You’ve heard of geothermal energy — it’s touted as a clean alternative. You’ve also heard of fracking, which is … not always thought of that way. One creates energy from the earth’s heat. The other ...

Indonesia’s energy sector lies on the cusp of renaissance as the latest technology — shale fracking — finally arrives in Southeast Asia. Last month, state-owned oil-and-gas firm Pertamina signed its ...

A Special Report released by the Heritage Foundation in April 2025 has found that New York’s decision to ban the process of hydraulic fracturing (commonly known as “fracking”) for natural gas in 2010 ...

Hydraulic fracturing, better known as fracking, has transformed the United States into the Saudi Arabia of natural gas — but not in New York, where foolish politicians like Gov. Hochul stubbornly ...

Purpose: In shale reservoirs, hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”) exists to create an engineered, high-conductivity fracture network that connects nano- to micro-Darcy matrix pores to the wellbore, ...