A waterflood pressurizes the reservoir and sweeps oil toward producers by injecting treated water into designated injection wells. It is the workhorse of secondary recovery, extending plateau rates, ...

Hundreds of people watch as journalist Justin Nobel discusses the history of injection well legislation on Tuesday evening at Washington State College of Ohio. (Photo by Gwen Sour) MARIETTA – ...

The continuing issue of injection wells was discussed Wednesday during the final meeting of the year by the Washington County ...

Bradenton Mayor Gene Brown says the city is years ahead of a 2032 deadline to stop discharging treated wastewater into the Manatee River, but there’s still plenty of work to do . One of the newest ...

EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the sixth in a series of stories reflecting on 20 years of gas drilling in Southwestern Pennsylvania. To understand why wastewater impoundments and injection wells have been a ...

A truck carrying fracking wastewater at an injection well in Morrow County, Ohio owned by Knox Brine Disposal in October 2015. The first fracking waste injection well proposed in Fayette County was ...

CRANE COUNTY, Texas — There’s one thing you won’t find at the Antina Ranch: cows. That’s because test showed Antina’s main water well was tainted with contaminants such as benzene, chloride, sulfate ...

Ten years ago, Tim Kettler asked local officials to stop spreading liquid waste from fracking on the road near his home in Warsaw, Ohio, because he was worried that the fluid would contaminate a pond ...

A truck filled with gas departs a newly completed gas well. The flare is burning because infrastructure to transport the gas via pipelines was not completed in time. Factory Farms in Iowa Generate 110 ...