Fracking the future: ... Oil Extraction in the Republic of Congo," demonstrates how efforts to draw on the Congolese oil field for profit also necessitated drawing on the very future of the ...

Fracking rigs have sprouted up in recent years in states from California to Pennsylvania, as energy companies take advantage of improved technology to gain access to vast stores of oil and natural ...

In 1969, the recently independent Republic of Congo discovered an enormous oil field off its coast. The find represented both a rare opportunity for the burgeoning nation, and a potential threat ...

Officials in a Florida county on the edge of the Everglades are in dispute with the state and a Texas oil company over what they call "acid fracking." The Business Journals Select a City ...