While primary production refers to oil ... water-injection wells should be drilled, as well as established patterns for water-injection wells in relation to production wells. One popular pattern ...

Fracking-the high-pressure injection of water, chemicals and sand into shale deposits to release the gas and oil trapped within the rock-in recent years has been combined with horizontal drilling ...

Without access to city water, West Odessa residents — like rural Texans across oil country — largely depend on water from wells drilled into the aquifer below. Frequently those wells are as ...

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Social media has been abuzz in recent weeks with reports that massive oil and gas deposits have been discovered ... including multiple water encounters that slowed the drilling process".

A small oil sheen was spotted at the Port of Long Beach on Thursday. The California Department of Fish and Wildlife’s Office of Spill Prevention and Response announced the detection on social ...

Colombian energy giant Ecopetrol has polluted hundreds of sites with oil, including water sources and biodiverse wetlands, the BBC World Service has found. Data leaked by a former employee reveals ...