As part its rush to allow drilling of lands abutting state parks and other public lands, Ohio needs to get into air-release monitoring aggressively and enforce best practices on drillers who already ...

In December 2025, an explosion and fire during hydraulic fracturing at an EOG Resources shale well pad in Carroll County, Ohio, was quickly contained to a vapor tank, with no injuries reported and the ...

Hydraulic fracturing, commonly referred to as “fracking,” is a process of extracting natural gas and oil from several miles deep beneath the Earth’s surface. Over the past decade, fracking has ...

The massive volume of wastewater from hydraulic fracturing in the Permian basin is causing ground pressure issues, regulatory ...

Hydraulic fracturing or fracking is an essential technique in the oil and gas industry, used to extract natural gas and oil from deep underground reservoirs. Traditionally, the process has involved a ...

The Petroleum Engineering Department in collaboration with West Texas Geology Society, recently hosted a two-day course for both oil and gas professionals and UTPB students. About 70 students, faculty ...

We already know that hydraulic fracturing—the process of injecting millions of gallons of water and chemicals deep into the earth to exploit the natural gas trapped inside rock—can likely help cause ...

A Duluth, Minn., man who died in an accident at a hydraulic fracturing site Saturday north of Watford City, N.D., was a family man and Air Force veteran who was proud of the work he was doing in North ...