Pumping water mixed with sand in a fracking operation, for Anadarko in Franktown, Colorado. Proppant consists of sand-sized particles injected with frac fluid during a fracking operation. In shale oil ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Ian writes on fossil energies, climate, and transition to renewables. Massive frac-pumping equipment in a modern Marcellus gas ...

James Gillin was at his home in the hamlet of New Freeport when a neighbor came looking for him. “He came down because he knows I work for the gas company. And he found a geyser in his yard,” Gillin ...

Hydrajet fracturing, which can place multiple propped hydraulic fractures in precise locations, effectively stimulated two underperforming horizontal openhole gas wells in the low-permeability Cardium ...

At-a-Glance: Solid expandable tubulars (SET) are run smaller and plastically expanded in-situ with a swage to restore or create a near-monobore inside existing casing or open hole. In fracturing, they ...

Well fracturing (hydraulic or acid fracturing) increases effective permeability by creating high-conductivity fractures that connect the wellbore to a larger rock volume. It sits in the completion and ...

A proposed set of federal rules governing hydraulic fracturing on public lands would cost oil and gas producers in the western US at least $345 million a year in extra costs in finalised, according to ...

The American Petroleum Institute announced that it supports the state-based voluntary chemical registry that is being jointly developed by the Ground Water Protection Council and the Interstate Oil & ...

The argument that hydraulic fracturing has no impact on private water supplies now has at least three solid legs supporting it. Within a week of each other, Penn State University, a peer-reviewed ...