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 ...

Existing loss of well control event indicators fall short of predicting events in an accurate and timely manner due to a lack ...

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 ...

Tue, 15 Jun 2010 23:02:20 GMT — The worst off-shore oil spill in the country's history is starting to influence Central New Yorkers. Though the damage is thousands of miles away, some think the danger ...