Much like the engine that powers your tractor, farmland drives your operation forward by providing the fuel your crops need to survive. Before installing a well, hire a professional to drill a test ...

PITTSBURGH - In at least four states that have nurtured the nation's energy boom, hundreds of complaints have been made about well-water contamination from oil or gas drilling, and pollution was ...

Reporting from TERRA BELLA, Calif. — On a dusty clearing between a fallow wheat field and wilting orange groves, Steve Arthur’s crew of two mud-splattered well drillers worked furiously to deliver a ...

A year after pleading no contest to criminal charges, one of Pennsylvania’s leading natural gas companies is poised to drill and frack in the rural community where it was banned for a dozen years for ...

Oil and gas extraction is pervasive among the coasts of the world. In many areas, such as the Gulf of Mexico and off the coast of west Africa, resource exploration companies have been moving into ...

PITTSBURGH — In at least four states that have nurtured the nation's energy boom, hundreds of complaints have been made about well-water contamination from oil or gas drilling, and pollution was ...

Some residents of Vandiver, a small, mountainous community just east of Birmingham, are now without water, after a project to install fiber cable underground hit the aquifer supplying their wells.

A new drill that uses super-hot water to cut through rock could help make geothermal energy a viable alternative to fossil fuels. Made by Redwood City, Calif.-based Potter Drilling with funding by ...

It is an anxious wait for a drought-fatigued Queensland farmer, watching on as a drill rig bores deep into the earth in search of invaluable underground water. Drought-hit farmers in Queensland's ...

Efforts to capture oil leaking from the BP well in the Gulf of Mexico suffered a setback Wednesday, after an underwater robot bumped into the venting system of a containment cap -- forcing BP to ...