ALLENTOWN, Pa. – Thirteen families in the heart of the gas-rich Marcellus Shale say their water wells have been contaminated by poisonous fluids blasted deep underground by a drilling company using a ...

People living near the NEXUS Pipeline project in Wood County are unhappy. They say they were not notified about 20,000 gallons of drilling fluid that ended up in a waterway connected to the Maumee ...

Terry Daniel - Payne Exploration Co., Oklahoma City; Earl Webb, Philip Nguyen - Halliburton Energy Services, Duncan, Okla. A new treatment offers a single two-step process for attacking the problems ...

KOSSE, Texas (AP) — In a deepening pit in this small town southeast of Waco, workers aim a high-pressure water cannon that reduces small hills of clay-like sand into a watery slurry that is filtered, ...

Legislation exempting sand used in oil and natural-gas drilling from sales taxes sailed through the Arkansas Senate on Thursday. The Senate voted 34-0, without debate, to approve Senate Bill 801 by ...

Drilling Specialties, in collaboration with Chevron Phillips Chemical’s polyalphaolefins organization, announced today the launch of NanoSlide™ drilling fluid lubricant, a proprietary next-generation ...

Occidental Petroleum Corp. successfully performed post-fracturing cleanouts in Midland basin using aphron fluids in depleted reservoirs requiring light fluids with low leakoff properties. Comparison ...

In a deepening pit in this small town southeast of Waco, workers aim a high-pressure water cannon that reduces small hills of clay-like sand into a watery slurry that is filtered, processed, dried ...