Horizontal drilling isn't new. Such wells have been drilled for the better part of a century. But combining it with hydraulic fracturing to produce gas and oil from shale is a far more recent ...

As the U.S. energy boom has taken off over the past several years, the term "fracking" has become a household name. But fracking, which involves pumping massive quantities of water, proppant, and ...

Horizontal drilling and fracking as a combined technique grew in popularity in part because it was shown to increase the ...

Public comments are due by the end of the week after the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers proposed a tunnel alternative last ...

Expertise and opinions of authors published by ForbesBooks. Imprint operated under license. When someone is new to the oil industry, they may picture fields full of rigs, spurts of black coming out of ...

Efficient drilling in shale reservoirs requires detailed 3-dimensional (3D) horizontal well trajectories. An orthogonal-arc trajectory (OAT) method assumes a single constant curvature in the curved ...

Williams Fork drilling began with vertical wells and more recently involves directionally drilled ones, resulting in multiple wells drilled from the same pad. However, directional wells are still far ...

Professional well-driller Joe Curry of Holly has been speaking out against the expansion of fracking in Michigan. Among his presentations was one given in Ferndale Apr. 23 at the request of Oakland ...

Arrow Exploration is a UK, Canada, and US listed small oil company with the majority of its production coming from Colombia. The company has successfully increased its production from 590 BOPD to 2800 ...