Technology pioneered by the oil and gas industry is fueling a new type of carbon-free power plant. Southern California Edison, one of the country’s largest power companies, has just announced a deal ...

Are the Russians coming to Texas riding the tailwinds of fracking? That depends on who you ask, as some believe Russian forces were behind the anti-fracking vote in Denton, while a $15 million ...

Lestz eventually developed a fracking process that substitutes propane, or liquid petroleum gas (LPG), for water. Chevron wasn't interested in LPG fracking, Lestz said. But in 2006, a business friend ...

Meaning that with some sophisticated deep fracking technology, it might be feasible to build some very serious geothermal plants. X-ray tomography scans of rock at different temperatures show that ...

For years, water, or, more accurately, its scarcity, has been predicted to be the next doomsday scenario. In 1994, the American Philosophical Society published a book bearing the title: Is water our ...

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 Energy Report: On July 26, George Phydias Mitchell died at the age of 94. The late Texas oilman had pioneered the use of horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing. Can you speak about his ...

Fracking wastewater, a byproduct of natural gas extraction, contains significant lithium concentrations, a critical component in renewable energy technologies and electric vehicle batteries.

The rapid buildout of wind and solar power generation has set off a race for experimental technologies to capture and store that energy. Several startups in Houston say they’ve developed ways to cache ...

The defendant's two patents upheld are the latest disputes in a series of trial court and administrative court challenges between two competitors in oil and gas fracking technology. Haynes and Boone ...

Hydraulic fracturing, or "fracking," as it is known, has been a hot-button issue in the 2024 race for the White House between former President Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris, as the two ...