MIDLAND, Texas -- One local said it sounded like a pickup truck had rammed into the side of their house. Another said it sounded like the air conditioner fell off the roof. A third compared the ...

Toxic wastewater is spreading across America’s biggest oil field, posing a pressing threat to a basin that has grown into a ...

DENTON, Texas Anti-fracking activists and campaigners backed by big oil and gas companies sparred outside of voting sites on the last day of early voting in a North Texas university town that s ...

A magnitude 4.5 earthquake was reported in South Texas on Wednesday night, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The earthquake was centered in far northern Karnes County, about 12 miles ...

Sage Geosystems is developing geothermal energy generation and storage that could be the future of clean energy.

When it comes to hydrofracking, it’s the fracturing that gets a lot of the attention, but in fact it’s the hydro part of that is particularly troublesome. Even if fears over the contamination of ...

Years of blundering and project delays have pushed the South Texas city to the brink of crisis as drought bears down and ...

HOUSTON (KTRK) -- Fracking, the process of forcing fluid into shale rock---and cracking it to release oil and/or gas is controversial. It's led to a lot of jobs and given the US a natural gas glut.

For the first time in more than 40 years, energy companies in Texas soon will have new rules for managing oil field waste. The Railroad Commission of Texas, which regulates the industry, adopted the ...

Explore the implications of Mexico fracking as Pemex pivots towards unconventional oil and gas fields for future energy needs ...