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U.S. oil major Chevron plans to increase the use of a technique that allows it to fracture subterranean rock in three wells ...

Over the past 15 years, oil drillers turned a stretch of desert in Texas and New Mexico called the Permian Basin into the ...

HOUSTON - U.S. oil major Chevron plans to increase the use of a technique that allows it to fracture subterranean rock in three wells at a time in the Permian ... field, the Denver-Julesberg basin ...