Sergey Sitnov, Senior Research Associate of the Laboratory, is one of the seven 2017 Russian Presidential Grant winners from KFU. His work at the laboratory focuses on finding ways to increase ...

An EPA study that downplays the threat of fracking on drinking water supplies was hailed Friday by oil industry supporters of the controversial high-pressure oil-extraction method, but ...

(Nanowerk News) Who is making sure the world meets its energy needs while minimizing risks to the planet? Your first guess might not be the world’s largest petroleum company. But during a sabbatical ...

A new report blames four runaway bitumen leaks at facilities operated by Canadian Natural Resources Limited (CNRL) on the company’s oil sands extraction process and geological factors. The findings ...

NPR's Robert Siegel interviews Barbara R. Shook, senior reporter-at-large at the Energy Intelligence Group, about how low oil prices need to go to make "unconventional oil" extraction too expensive.

Measurements of hazardous air pollutant concentrations near oil and natural gas extraction sites have generally failed to capture levels above standard health benchmarks; yet, the majority of studies ...