These individuals, including the Koch brothers, Kelcy Warren, Harold Hamm, George Mitchell, and Monty Moncrief, were ...

It was the first time in 12 years that Arlington opened land for fracking. TotalEnergies will drill 10 new gas wells amid an uptick in Barnett Shale activity.

ARLINGTON, Texas—The Barnett Shale, rich in natural gas, lies inconveniently beneath sprawling suburbs of the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex. The fracking boom began here almost 20 years ago ...

That’s a change from earlier activity, when companies including Total Energies and XTO started fracking in the Barnett Shale, a geologic formation containing trillions of cubic feet of fossil fuels.

With Trump winning the election, many things about U.S. energy policy will change, and most likely fracking rates will increase. Fracking is a process that involves injecting high-pressure fluid ...

Fracking — the controversial 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.

Fracking in Pennsylvania hasn’t gone as well as some may think Twenty years after the state's first shale gas well was drilled, jobs comprise less than 1% of the workforce, residents fear health ...

What is fracking? Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, is a technique to extract fossil fuels—primarily methane, the principal component of natural gas—from underground rock layers.

In Ohio, oil and gas companies must prove at least 65% of property owners in a project area consent to leasing their land for drilling before going forward.

Instead of capturing gas to burn, fracking could capture heat to turn into electricity. Above, a shale fracking site in Marianna, Pennsylvania.