The development of "oil shale" (not to be confused with "shale oil") and "tar sands" has been shown to be environmentally destructive, and water and energy intensive. Extracting oil from U.S. public ...

Companies big and small are figuring out how to manage the Permian Basin’s unprecedented volume of produced water.

Here Syncrude, Canada's largest oil producer, digs bitumen-laced sand from the ground with electric shovels five stories high, then washes the bitumen off the sand with hot water and sometimes ...

The Lower Rio Grande River is in a ‘near-permanent human-induced megadrought threatening all life that depends on it.’ ...

During fracking, liquid is pumped into the ground at a high pressure to create holes, or fractures, that release oil. The sand helps keep the holes open as water, oil and gas flow through it.

Engineers have developed a groundbreaking computational model to study the movement of granular materials such as soils, sands and powders. By integrating the dynamic interactions among particles, air ...

A research team from the School of Engineering at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology has developed a new ...