Fracking is where it's at for U.S. oil production, but it's more than a little complicated. In this week's episode of Industry Focus: Energy, Motley Fool analysts Sean O'Reilly and Taylor Muckerman ...

It was a battle environmentalists thought they had won years ago. But fracking – the controversial technology for extracting ...

For years, fracking has been a hot topic of debate in the United States. The process works by drilling deep below the earth’s surface and extracting gas by injecting a high-pressure water mixture that ...

Purpose: Hydraulic fracturing in tight oil reservoirs creates high-conductivity flow paths and a large stimulated reservoir volume (SRV) in rock with ultra-low permeability, enabling commercial oil ...

Bev Reed, with the Buckeye Environmental Network, holds a map showing injection well sites near Marietta in southeast Ohio. Hydraulic fracturing, particularly on public lands, has spurred protests ...

The smaller U.S. producers are the first movers bringing new oil wells online.

Over the two decades since fracking started near their lands, farmers in the Mexican state of Veracruz have watched their ...

National environment groups joined forces with grassroots activists in Denton Thursday in seeking to defend in court the first municipal fracking ban adopted in Texas. Grassroot activist Cathy ...