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 ...

LONDON, Dec 12 (Reuters) - It is time to stop demonising hydraulic fracturing. Oil and gas production is a messy, dirty business that produces all sorts of harmful waste. But the chemicals used in ...

PHILADELPHIA — Amid all the fuss over the water and chemicals consumed in hydraulic fracturing, few people pay attention to the other ingredient used in fracking a gas well: sand. But John R. Hellmann ...

300,000 people live within a three-mile radius of the test wells, fracked to reach oil once considered too expensive to extract. By Ngoc Nguyen, New America Media/InsideClimate News Sign up here.

Any industrial activity near water reserves could, in principle, cause contamination. Isotope hydrology offers a unique combination of methods to monitor water quality and trace the source of ...