A well test via the Wisting Central II horizontal appraisal well in the Barents Sea has recorded a flow rate of more than 5,000 boe/d and has therefore proved the viability of shallow horizontal ...

A Houston oil company continues to develop expertise in drilling shallow horizontal wells near Seguin and Luling. The Railroad Commission of Texas issued a drilling permit to Texas Petroleum ...

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 ...

Recent enhancements in relief well technology enable operators to drill into prolific reservoirs while maintaining a single relief well contingency plan. Blowout contingency planning is required by ...

Several thousand near-surface hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, operations for oil and natural gas production in the U.S. pose a potentially significant risk of contaminating drinking water sources, ...

Toronto, Ontario--(Newsfile Corp. - August 11, 2020) - Pancontinental Resources Corporation (TSXV: PUC) ("Pancon" or the "Company") is pleased to report that it commenced, on August 6, an initial ...

CORRECTION: This story was updated on Aug. 24, 2015, to correct the number of wells that used more than 1 million gallons of fracking fluid per well. Several thousand near-surface hydraulic fracturing ...