China is on track to become the world’s third-largest gas producer after rapidly expanding its fracking capabilities.

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

For years, fracking has been a hot topic of debate in the United States. The process works by drilling deep below the earth’s surface and extracting gas by injecting a high-pressure water mixture that ...

When it comes to hydrofracking, it’s the fracturing that gets a lot of the attention, but in fact it’s the hydro part of that is particularly troublesome. Even if fears over the contamination of ...

Ohio has hundreds of injection wells that store waste from oil and natural gas production. In one southeast Ohio city, ...

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

Fracking can be dated back to the 1860s but became dominant in US oil and gas production in the 2000s. Horizontal drilling and fracking as a combined technique grew in popularity in part because it ...

Fears that the Trump administration is looking for ways to lift a longstanding ban on fracking for natural gas in the densely populated Delaware River Basin—which includes part of Pennsylvania—have ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Marianne Krasny is a professor at Cornell University. “Natural gas is queen,” gushed Exelon energy executive John Rowe at the ...

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 ...