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 ...

Over the course of millions of years, heat and pressure can transform the organic remains of animals and plants into crude oil. That's why they're called a fossil fuels — the long-dead creatures 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.