"There's over 20,000 Barnett wells drilled in the last 20-something years, but if the gas prices went up significantly, those rigs would start coming back." Today the price of natural gas is $2.83 ...

Chesapeake Energy was among the earliest fracking pioneers, cutting eye-popping checks to Fort Worth businesses and residents as inducements to drill on their land in the Barnett Shale of North Texas.

DALLAS (AP) - Hydraulic fracturing is a drilling process that blasts millions of gallons of water for each well deep into the earth to fracture dense shale and allow natural gas to escape. The ...

The C. W. Slay #1 was the first successfull natural gas well drilled in the Barnett Shale. (Loren Steffy / Contributor) Fracking, the process for unlocking those gas reserves in commercial ...

Fracking in Fort Worth in September 2013. North Texas’ Barnett Shale — one of the country’s largest natural gas fields and the birthplace of modern fracking — holds even more reachable gas ...

The scene in Denton wasn’t exactly what actor Tommy Lee Jones had in mind when he urged us all to “Get Behind the Barnett Shale” in a 2008 advertising campaign paid for by Chesapeake Energy.

As hydraulic fracturing (a.k.a. fracking) has unlocked untold reserves of natural gas, it has also unleashed a wave of concerns about pollution and, for one family in the Barnett Shale, a long ...

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 ...

In many Barnett Shale wells, more water comes back to the surface than is injected in the fracking process. Such abundant “produced water” can be recycled or reused.

Dive into the complex world of fracking and its future in the shale gas industry. What’s next for this controversial ...

She didn’t want a repeat of 2013, when she experienced nosebleeds after natural gas drilling began at the site just a quarter mile from her home in Arlington, Texas, in the Barnett Shale.

Beneath layers of ancient rock, a high-pressure process is reshaping the modern energy landscape. As fracking expands across ...