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Fracking is a non-technical term for Hydraulic Fracturing. Fracking or Hydraulic Fracturing is a method for retrieving, otherwise inaccessible, natural gas and petroleum by injecting pressurized fluid and chemicals into underground rock causing fissures. The fissures widen and expand allowing petroleum and gas to escape and flow to areas where it can be retrieved. less -

Energy Technology Connections Newsletter - Your Law Firm Link to Industry News: March 2017

Mintz on 4/1/2017

Our March edition of Energy Technology Connections brings you recent industry highlights and features a list of upcoming energy industry events throughout the nation. If you enjoy learning about new technology as much as we...more

Employment Law Navigator – Week in Review: August 2016

Zelle LLP on 8/2/2016

Contrary to the EEOC’s position that sexual orientation discrimination is protected by Title VII’s prohibition on gender discrimination, the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals held last week that existing law does not support...more

Ideas On Energy: Mid-Atlantic Energy Technology Forum Looks To The Industry’s Future

Troutman Pepper on 4/17/2014

The future of the energy industry; the technologies with the potential to impact energy exploration, delivery and efficiency; and the energy industry investment climate were on the agenda at the 6th Annual Mid-Atlantic Energy...more

Technology Will Silence The Critics Of Drilling

Gray Reed on 1/16/2014

Technology and innovation will resolve the issues, real and imagined, that confront hydraulic fracturing. I arrive at that opinion because of history...more

State Legislatures Finally Recognizing New Drilling Technology

Tucker Arensberg, P.C. on 12/18/2013

In the old days, operators had to find flat ground in order to drill vertically in the hopes of finding a pocket of trapped oil or natural gas, as well as constructing infrastructure in the form of a well on that location,...more

Quench My Thirst: Water Rights in the Context of Water Treatment Technologies

Jackson Walker on 7/17/2013

Introduction - •35,000 wells hydraulically fractured in the U.S.Annually •Over one million wells have been hydraulically fractured since its introduction in the 1940s •90% of all wells drilled in the U.S....more

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