A December 2017 study from Resources for the Future (RFF), an environmental think tank whose mission is “to improve environmental, energy, and natural resource decisions through impartial economic ...

Hydraulic fracturing (fracking) increases well deliverability and ultimate recovery by creating high-conductivity flow paths from the reservoir to the wellbore. It sits in the upstream value chain ...

Purpose: Hydraulic fracturing in tight oil reservoirs creates high-conductivity flow paths and a large stimulated reservoir volume (SRV) in rock with ultra-low permeability, enabling commercial oil ...

While hydraulic fracking has been around since the late 1940s, it initially didn't prove enormously profitable in extracting gas and oil from rock formations known as shale. That changed in 1997 when ...

What is fracking? You may have heard about the effects this oil and gas extraction technique have on the environment, but its impacts extend far beyond that. Between 2007 and 2016, oil production in ...