Muckerman: It does. They lower the piping down, and before they drill any further, they force cement down the hole, and wraps around the pipe at the bottom, and then upfills, and once it's cemented ...

Hydraulic fracturing (fracking) increases oilfield productivity by creating high-conductivity flow paths that connect low-permeability rock to the wellbore, reduce near-wellbore damage (skin), and ...

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 ...

Southern California Edison, one of the country’s largest power companies, has just announced a deal to buy electricity from a seven-year-old start-up called Fervo Energy. Like other energy companies, ...

You've probably heard about fracking, by now. It's a short-hand term for hydraulic fracturing, a method for extracting natural gas by drilling into shale and pumping a mix of water and chemicals into ...

That play on a line in the 1967 film “The Graduate” may well sum up Donald Trump’s line of attack on energy policy in Tuesday’s debate with Kamala Harris. The presidential contest is shining a renewed ...

Steve Harmon’s house shakes when the mining company 100 yards away blasts into what was once farmland. His patio is constantly covered in a thin layer of fine white sand. He and his neighbors also had ...

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — Vice President Kamala Harris said she won't ban fracking natural gas, telling KDKA-TV that her position hasn't changed since she joined the Biden ticket in 2020. As a senator back ...