Steve Straughen suffered life-altering injuries when a frac tank he was working on exploded and he was thrown in the air. Now, Straughen has just won a $30 million judgment in Colorado federal court.

Long before sunrise, Molly Sizer starts her day in West Texas as a professional frac sand hauler. She gets dressed, drives her Peterbilt truck to one of the dozens of frac mines around the ...

Russia's invasion of Ukraine has knocked 1.5 million barrels of oil per day out of the global supply. With prices spiking, US oil producers have not significantly stepped up production. One reason ...

Frac sand miner Jordan Sands in North Mankato was pushed into receivership recently after its banker declared a loan default. A few months earlier, Minnesota's largest frac sand producer by far ...

Chevron's expansion of the technique, known as triple-frac, comes as the second-largest U.S. oil producer expects to continue growing output in the Permian, the biggest U.S. oilfield, even as it ...

Chevron (NYSE:CVX) is ramping up its use of a technique called triple-frac in the Permian Basin, aiming to speed up oil production and lower drilling costs, according to a report from Reuters.

E-frac uses electricity from natural gas or power grids to drive pumps instead of diesel fuel. Oil and gas companies have been adopting the technology in efforts to reduce the carbon emissions ...

Chevron (NYSE:CVX) started using triple-frac in the Permian for the first time in March 2024, and plans to use it on 50%-60% of its wells in the basin, compared to just 20% last year, Jeff Newhook ...