Recent advances in drilling technologies and digital data analysis have significantly enhanced our ability to characterise rock masses with greater precision and in real time. Modern approaches, such ...

Drilling in its broadest sense is any process that involves making a circular hole in a solid material or hard surface using a boring tool. With thousands of applications across industries, drilling ...

BLM must balance energy development with complex environmental and cultural resource concerns Permits to drill on state land can take as little as ten days to process The lengthy process will likely ...

LOVELAND — Within a few months, McWhinney Real Estate Services Inc., developer of the Centerra neighborhood of east Loveland, plans to submit an application for a permit to drill oil and gas wells on ...

LAS CRUCES - A hydrologist working with the city to build three new wells recently held a short course to explain the drilling process. “The ideal well is efficient, with very little sand production,” ...

Mike Chadsey, director of public relations for the Ohio Oil and Gas Association, walks down from an Ascent drilling rig in Belmont County. (Photo by Janelle Patterson) ST. CLAIRSVILLE, Ohio — Between ...

WASHINGTON — Citing motorists’ angst about high gasoline prices, the House of Representatives on Wednesday advanced two bills that would accelerate offshore oil and natural gas drilling. Legislation ...

Drilling supervisors at GDF Suez E&P Deutschland GMBH have used a visual road map to control drilling operations since March 2008. The Leer Z5-5 is one of the tight gas wells recently drilled by GDF ...

A new technique developed by researchers at Sandia National Laboratories using an inexpensive disposable fiber optics telemetry system to relay real-time information about the drilling process is ...

Drilling deeper, longer and more challenging wells has been made possible by improvements in drilling technologies, including more efficient and effective drilling fluids. Drilling fluids, also ...