The Stormont Executive has approved legislation that will permanently end petroleum exploration and licensing, including ...

United States fracking companies are increasingly sending their idle equipment overseas, finding new markets abroad as growth slows in the shale fields of Texas, New Mexico and elsewhere.

The extraction of gas and oil by fracking—large-scale fracturing of underground rocks by injecting water, sand and ...

The time limit to start drilling for oil at the site near Balcombe expired without any work being done. The West Sussex village became the centre of fracking protests after permission was granted to ...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom cracked down on oil producers Tuesday, halting approval of hundreds of fracking permits until independent scientists can review them and temporarily banning another ...

U.S. shale producers are expanding overseas—from Argentina and Turkey to Australia and the UAE—as domestic shale basins mature and well productivity declines. Companies including Continental Resources ...

Lack of a state floodplain policy enabled oil companies to build in parts of Texas hit by an epic inundation less than 30 years ago.

Sinn Féin MLA Áine Murphy also welcomed the Executive's approval of the legislation. The Fermanagh and South Tyrone MLA who introduced a bill to ban fracking in the last mandate, said this was "a ...