hydraulic fracturing

Researchers say they found that the amount and proximity of natural gas wells to a home were linked to higher levels of certain chemical contaminants.

Electric-powered fracturing fleets looked impressively resilient in 2020 amid what was otherwise a significant collapse for the hydraulic fracturing sector. Today, the situation is more complicated.

In a perspective piece that appears in the journal Science, Elaine Hill, an economist in the University of Rochester Medical Center Department of Public Health Sciences, calls for tighter regulation and monitoring of unconventional oil and gas development as more evidence points to the negative health consequences of the practice.

A fast-moving pressure pulse is the priority of a research and development initiative that, if successful, will result in a new diagnostic technology for horizontal wells in tight reservoirs.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom directed his administration to take steps to phase out oil and gas drilling in one of the nation’s top oil-producing states by 2045 and to ban new hydraulic fracturing permits within 3 years.

A look behind-the-scenes reveals what it takes to protect innovative ideas in the fast-moving US shale sector—key lessons learned, pitfalls to avoid, and how to do it the right way, as told by two of the operator's intellectual property (IP) protection leaders.

The supermajor would be the second to conduct a hydraulic fracturing pilot project in the country.

Artificial intelligence is opening new ways to analyze data from microseismic events that occur during hydraulic fracturing. One researcher at Moscow’s Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology is building a convolutional neural network to get a subsurface view of permeability after fracturing.

The deal fills a gap in the software developer's production line that is focused on drilling, production, and land management applications.