Houston-based startup Quaise Energy is testing technology that melts and even vaporizes rock to unlock "superhot" rock ...

"This process is intended to create new fractures in the rock as well as increase the size, extent, and connectivity of ...

A type of stimulation treatment, acidizing is performed below the reservoir fracture pressure in an effort to restore the natural permeability of the reservoir rock. Well acidizing is achieved by ...

Scientists detected living microorganisms within a sealed fracture of 2-billion-year-old rock from South Africa, making them possibly the oldest life forms confirmed to date. Researchers from ...