Fracking is a technique for recovering gas and oil from shale rock The Northern Ireland Executive has approved legislation ...

Oil tankers have mostly stopped entering or exiting the Persian Gulf as Iran threatens to block the Strait of Hormuz amid an ongoing war with the United States that has killed its supreme leader and ...

Bag by bag—in what Ron Gusek calls giant “super sacks”—Liberty Energy Inc. loaded 45 million pounds of sand in late 2024 from a California port and sent it across the Pacific. The cargo was bound for ...

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

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 ...

Labour plans to introduce a “total ban” on fracking this autumn, replacing the current moratorium with permanent legislation. Experts say the U.K.’s complex geology makes large-scale fracking unviable ...

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 ...

Researchers met with City of Dawson Creek council on Feb. 9 to discuss the potential harms and health outcomes of oil and gas ...