Hydraulic fracturing, long dominated by the U.S. shale industry, is rapidly becoming a global export as countries seek to unlock hard-to-reach oil and gas reserves to meet rising energy demand, ...

The technique, honed over the past 15 years in the US, is now being deployed to unlock hard-to-reach oil and gas reserves ...

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

The engine of the boom that turned the United States into the world’s largest oil producer could see its already thin margins ...

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

More of the Leesville Wildlife Area in Carroll County has been opened up for fracking.

In a move toward a cleaner energy future, the UK government has announced plans to permanently ban fracking "at the earliest opportunity." This controversial practice extracts shale gas by blasting ...

All along the highway that leads into this city in West Texas, the rows of black pump jacks seem endless, bobbing up and down as they pull crude oil from beneath the parched scrub desert. The pump ...

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 ...