Marathon Oil Corp has put together one of the best introductory videos on how hydraulic fracturing works. There is a lot of corporate-speak during the video, but it’s still worth a watch if your ...

A research team from Ruhr-Universität Bochum (RUB) and McGill University in Montreal is investigating what exactly happens underground when the earth in western Canada shakes as a result of hydraulic ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... When engineers first coined the term “hydraulic fracturing,” it’s a safe bet they never expected that such an arcane technical phrase would need to be ...

Hydraulic fracturing has attracted a lot of attention in recent years with the rise of U.S. shale oil and gas drilling and production. Hydraulic fracturing is also at the center of heated debates, ...