As Humpty Dumpty would have said to Alice if he were Justice Dumpty of the Texas Supreme Court, the term means whatever the parties to an oil and gas lease say it means, neither more nor less. In ...

A Green Light Metals crew hit water when it began digging a waste pit for its exploratory drilling project last week. Activists say it proves the project is occurring too close to the groundwater ...

DNO will drill in the region following a spending hiatus. Despite halting new drilling in 2023, the operator is still pumping 80,000 bo/d from the area.

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How oil and gas drilling can impact nearby residents came joltingly into focus last July, when a 109-foot well went in Macomb County's Shelby Township less than 500 feet from homes. "They drilled for ...

A mayor emergency drilling operation got underway on the Balboa Peninsula in Newport Beach Monday as crews were rushing to permanently fix a methane gas leak from October. The drilling operation took ...

Equinor ASA EQNR, a Norwegian integrated energy company, has awarded a contract to Odfjell Drilling, an offshore drilling contractor, for its Deepsea Aberdeen drillship for work on the Norwegian ...

Cuttings transport and effective hole cleaning are critical processes in modern drilling operations, particularly in horizontal and deviated wells where gravity and complex flow regimes challenge the ...

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. Horizontal drilling techniques are giving a historic oil ...

Lost circulation management is a critical component in drilling operations, addressing the challenge of drilling fluid loss into formation fractures. This phenomenon not only increases operational ...

The University of Wyoming's Simulation Facility stands as a one-in-kind center for advanced education, research, and training in drilling and energy operations. Our state-of-the-art facility uniquely ...

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