Texas regulators are warning that wastewater from fracking in the biggest US oil basin is causing a “widespread” increase in ...

Like other local residents, they said, they have a shallow well. It’s 25 feet deep. The concern lingers in their minds as they see the nearby dewatering and the pipes by Smilax Road and ...

But she noted that each well uses between 9 and 18 million gallons ... an industry trade group. Opponents of fracking say water from surface sources such as creeks are the wrong use of a common ...

the average hydraulically fracked gas or oil well uses about 4 million gallons of water, or about as much as New York City uses every six minutes, according to the American Petroleum Institute, an ...

The Texas Railroad Commission approved the construction of produced water ponds to treat and recycle produced water from fracking, next to the Circle 6 Baptist Camp in the Permian Basin.

† Division of Earth and Ocean Sciences, Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina 27708, United States ‡ Department of Earth Sciences, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New ...

And when we say everywhere, we mean everywhere. The state is inching closer to reusing fracking water to help make up for the shortage. Also known as produced water, the industrial waste would be ...

The shallow disposal zones, located between oil-rich layers of shale and the surface, consist of porous rock that can absorb water. But the 100-year history of crude production in the Permian means ...

Texas regulators are warning that wastewater from fracking in the biggest US oil basin is causing a “widespread” increase in underground pressure — a development that risks hindering crude ...

The Ohio Department of Natural Resources halted operations at a Noble County well pad operated by Houston-based Encino ... records of the hydraulic fracturing (the technical term for fracking) from ...

ODESSA — Oil and gas companies are seeking legal shelter as Texas comes closer to using waste brine once considered too toxic for anything other than fracking to replenish Texas’ water shortages.

"Oil companies want protection as Texas considers allowing treated fracking water released into rivers" was first published by The Texas Tribune, a nonprofit, nonpartisan media organization that ...