Fracking — the practice of drilling deep into the earth and cracking through layers of tight shale to extract natural gas — was in the spotlight during last night’s debate between Vice President ...

Lancashire County Council serves an enforcement notice on the Preston New Road site, near Blackpool.

U.S. shale producers are expanding overseas—from Argentina and Turkey to Australia and the UAE—as domestic shale basins mature and well productivity declines. Companies including Continental Resources ...

As the Q1 earnings season wraps, let’s dig into this quarter’s best and worst performers in the u.s. shale e&p industry, ...

After word got out that a New Orleans energy production company is planning to drill a “fracking” well in St. Tammany Parish, several industry experts said a successful well along the outer edge of ...

Shale explorers are drilling wells faster than they’re fracking them, a strong signal that U.S. oil production growth is slowing. Oil companies added to the number of drilled-but-uncompleted wells, ...

The University of California at Berkeley’s Haas Energy Institute released a study on the shale gas revolution, noting that ...

KEN COSTELLO Shale-gas production is economically good when its value exceeds the costs of drilling, transportation and distribution. But because production imposes a cost on society that lies outside ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Shale gas exploration triggered small earthquakes near Blackpool in northwest England earlier this year, UK firm Cuadrilla Resources said, adding to concerns about the safety of a ...