There aren’t fracking-exclusive companies so much as there are several different firms involved in each step of the process. And the process itself is constantly improving. Today, the method ...

The entire process — perforating, fracking, recovery, isolation — is repeated up the borehole until the entire horizontal bore is fracked. The isolating plugs are then bored out, and the well ...

This natural gas boom is largely thanks to hydraulic fracturing, commonly known as fracking. This extraction process combines chemicals, often toxic ones, with large amounts of water and sand at ...

“Fracking” is a common name for hydraulic fracturing, which is a process that uses a high-pressure mix of water, chemicals ...

Kristen: This is what makes the process of fracking controversial as shown by protests at fracking sites worldwide. Male voice: The gas is released and flushed all the way back up here to the surface.

Now, a team at Skoltech has used AI to optimize hydraulic fracturing, known as fracking, a process of injecting water mixed with particles (proppant) and some chemicals into underground formations ...

The use of hydraulic fracturing to extract oil and gas from the earth dates back to the 1940s, but only in the past few years has "fracking" become an energy buzzword, alluding primarily to the ...

Hydraulic fracturing or “fracking,” a process of removing embedded oil or natural gas from rock, has greatly increased since the early ‘90s when horizontal drilling made previously economically ...

Rather than doing more damage to an overheating planet, “fracking” techniques are instead being used to expand the number of locations where clean geothermal energy can be tapped. On this ...

Yet much of the United States' fracking activity takes place in areas that are suffering from high or extremely high water stress, according to Ceres, an advocacy group for sustainable investment.