FORT COLLINS — On a chilly March night, city councilmembers faced an unusual sight: citizens imploring them to increase taxes. They had packed council chambers to plead for a proposed ban on hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, within city limits.

Look carefully, and you’ll notice a second infrastructure that’s also expanding, this one comprised of pump jacks, drill rigs, pipes and compressor stations. The nation’s fourth-largest oil and gas reserve lies underground here, and industry is ...

WASHINGTON—The Biden administration canceled plans to auction drilling rights in three regions off the U.S. coastline later this year, adding more friction to an uneasy relationship with the oil industry during a period of high gasoline prices.

Drilling deeper, longer and more challenging wells has been made possible by improvements in drilling technologies, including more efficient and effective drilling fluids. Drilling fluids, also referred to as drilling mud, are added to the wellbore to ...

George Washington National Forest considering allowing some types of drilling Talladega National Forest last year tried to auction 43%2C000 acres for exploration About 200 acres in Homochitto National Forest are likely to go up for auction soon ...

As people and machines age, MIT says the study of tribology is necessary. Friction and wear pose enormous challenges to 21st Century mechanical and electromechanical systems. By one estimate, 6% of the gross national product is wasted through its impact.