Hydraulic fracturing stimulation, commonly known as fracking, is a widely used technique in the oil and gas industry to ...

Oil fields are areas where there is substantial oil in multiple oil reservoirs that are trapped by impermeable rock above. In oil reservoirs, oil exists as tiny droplets inside open spaces called ...

Engineers have figured out several methods over the years to scour out stubborn oil from nooks and crannies in the reservoir rock (think of a sponge but with much tighter pore spaces). One ...

A contentious plan to drill up to 166 oil and gas ... more than a mile of rock separate the wellbore from our state’s aquifers and surface water like the Aurora Reservoir.” ...

The emissions would be collected from several industrial sources nearby, compressed into a liquid-like state and injected into porous rock more ... of exhausted oil reservoirs into a long-term ...

Neighbors trying to stop the drilling of oil wells near their homes along the Aurora Reservoir scored a small ... by over a mile of impermeable rock. This has been standard practice in Colorado ...