America's oil industry faces a number of challenges, including low oil prices, the rise of electric vehicles and proposals to limit fracking. But one of its biggest problems: The industry is running out of water.
The United Kingdom once hoped that fracking would unlock its shale energy reserves, enhancing the country's energy security and creating jobs and new tax revenues in the process. That now looks unlikely to ever happen.
As Americans gas up for the start of the summer driving season, they'll pay the highest Memorial Day prices at the pump since 2014. And they'll have trouble finding any sort of middle lane in the oil wars of American politics.
Fracking has restarted in the United Kingdom for the first time since 2011, as the UK-based energy firm Cuadrilla kicked off a three-month exploration process on Preston New Road in the northern English county of Lancashire.
Texas has been flexing its global oil muscles.
The United States will be the world's top oil producer in just a matter of months.
Winona County, Minnesota's first and only county to ban the mining of silica sand for use by the oil and gas industry in hydraulic fracturing, is headed to court to defend it.
A key Republican says a proposal that would clear the way for a Georgia company to build a $70 million frac sand processing plant in western Wisconsin is dead because of opposition from several state senators.
Crude oil is hotter this year than the Dow, the Nasdaq and even bitcoin.
OPEC, Russia and other major oil producers agreed this week to hold their collective fire power for another nine months.
