Even as the country debates the merits of deepwater drilling, the number of permits granted for shallow water drilling has fallen almost to zero. If we don't reverse this trend, it could be more ...

BP's well took 87 days to plug in large part because the company wasn't prepared for a major spill at a depth of 5,000 feet. The company had to rely on remotely operated deep-sea vehicles to plug its ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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, ...