Horizontal drilling isn't new. Such wells have been drilled for the better part of a century. But combining it with hydraulic fracturing to produce gas and oil from shale is a far more recent ...

Banning fracking is a bad idea, but promising $2-a-gallon gasoline is silly, yet during an election season, politicians will say the darndest things. Voters who care about energy costs need to look ...

The Arlington City Council on Tuesday authorized the creation of a new zone for drilling and fracking in a residential area, despite objections from neighbors in the North Texas suburb. It was the ...

The interminable war on drilling, fracking and the Keystone XL pipeline has taken some bizarre turns. Now it’s getting worse, as opponents grow more desperate, and the moon again grows full. Deepwater ...

It is hard to believe that just a decade ago, there was a massive backlash against fracking. This was the technology pioneered by drillers such as Harold Hamm of Continental Resources, which unlocked ...

The Denison Trough region has a long history of gas production, but new technologies have helped uncover what some say is a ...

As the craze of earnings season draws to a close, here’s a look back at some of the most exciting (and some less so) results ...

Children who lived closer to natural gas wells in heavily drilled western Pennsylvania were more likely to develop a relatively rare form of cancer, and nearby residents of all ages had an increased ...