Texas’s oil and gas industry, and its fracking use ... to avoid the expensive and labor-intensive process of shutting down and plugging a well site. Even then, many organizations technically ...

And the process itself is constantly ... particles are pumped into the fracking well. The proppants literally “prop open” the fractures, allowing the gas and oil to flow freely into a wellbore ...

Although hydraulic fracturing has been used since at least the 1940s to stimulate production in oil ... well by an isolating plug placed upstream of the freshly fracked section. The entire process ...

Advocates maintain that increasing setbacks — the distance between a gas well and housing, water sources or other restricted ...

U.S. oil major Chevron plans to increase the use of a technique that allows it to fracture subterranean rock in three wells ...

We'll leave you with this image capturing the two sides of the fracking-debate coin: while the process may intrude on the landscape, there really aren't that many people around. And many people ...

It makes for an interesting watch, as he leads the viewer through the process in detail ... of the toxic fracking well water released from underground along with the oil or gas.

As of today, the state oil and gas regulator is prohibited from issuing fracking permits for oil and gas wells, bringing a multi-year regulatory process to a close. “It’s a huge relief that the ...

Texas’s oil and gas industry, and its fracking use ... to avoid the expensive and labor-intensive process of shutting down ...