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

This discovery isn’t just significant; it’s potentially world-changing, explained Dr. Alistair Finch, a geophysicist and ...

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 ...

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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.” ...

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 ...

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The oil dipstick extends into the oil pan and measures the oil level in the reservoir. A drain plug on ... intentionally or by accident) and hits a rock or other hard object.

Water spilled over the Whale Rock Reservoir this month for the first time in 18 years. The reservoir located on Old Creek Road near Cayucos reached 100 capacity on March 10, leading to the need ...