The Petroleum Engineering Department in collaboration with West Texas Geology Society, recently hosted a two-day course for both oil and gas professionals and UTPB students. About 70 students, faculty ...

But it's not close -- and don't expect an answer anytime soon, either. The EPA has shamefully dropped the ball on this important investigation, pushing back the study's timetable by two years. Instead ...

From North Dakota to Texas to Pennsylvania, hydraulic fracturing has transformed many places in America into energy powerhouses. But while some see the new energy boom as benefiting the local economy, ...

The Independent Petroleum Association of America will work to ensure that an upcoming study on hydraulic fracturing is scientific, based on facts, and includes input from the oil and gas industry as ...

In the largest study of its kind, a Yale-led investigation found no evidence that trace contamination of organic compounds in drinking water wells near the Marcellus Shale in northeastern Pennsylvania ...