Hydraulic fracturing is a completion technique that pumps high-pressure fluid and proppant into a low-permeability reservoir to create and prop open fractures, increasing flow paths so oil can move to ...

Over the course of millions of years, heat and pressure can transform the organic remains of animals and plants into crude oil. That's why they're called a fossil fuels — the long-dead creatures that ...

Muckerman: They have to eat, too. So you get them to provide some of the equipment to do the drilling, to do the fracking, to do the completing. And then once the oil starts flowing, they throw the ...