The drilling procedure commonly known as "fracking" could be banned in Florida under a proposed bill. The general bill was filed Thursday by Republican Rep. Heather Fitzenhagen, who represents Fort ...

A new drilling technique is opening up vast fields of previously out-of-reach oil in the western United States, helping reverse a two-decade decline in domestic production of crude. Companies are ...

Managed Pressure Drilling (MPD) and Underbalanced Drilling (UBD) techniques represent significant advancements in the safe and efficient extraction of hydrocarbons. MPD employs sophisticated control ...

A slide and compound drilling model calculates build-up rate (BUR) of a single bent-angle motor assembly using a physical model and genetic-algorithm back propagation (GA-BP) regression analysis. A ...

The U.S. EPA is vowing to finally get to the bottom of underground fracking. Federal environmental officials this week announced they would take on a $1.9 million study of the possible effects on ...

As the first operator on the Norwegian shelf, Statoil has conducted an underbalanced drilling operation using the existing drilling facilities on an installation. The company has also conducted ...

In a full-scale demonstration on an oil rig near Houston, Texas, Quaise Energy showcased its new drilling technique capable of reaching superhot geothermal resources 2 to 12 miles beneath the Earth's ...

Changes in directional drilling and surveying practices could lead to a reduction in positional errors arising from nonconstant wellbore curvature. Part 1 of this series (OGJ, Oct. 27, 2003, p. 51) ...

What if the key to unlocking a cleaner, more sustainable energy future was hidden just beneath our feet—but we lacked the tools to reach it? Despite geothermal energy’s immense potential to power ...