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 ...

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

Natural gas extraction companies are currently targeting parts of western and eastern Virginia for drilling using the controversial technique known as hydraulic fracturing with horizontal drilling, ...

The National Iranian South Oil Co. (NISOC), Ahwaz, Iran, has applied horizontal drilling technology to the country's carbonate and sandstone reservoirs to increase recoverable reserves, well ...

Oil majors are teaming up with start-ups in geothermal energy. Drilling of wells to tap geothermal energy is expensive, but companies have managed to lower costs in recent years. Fervo, a fast-growing ...

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 ...

In today’s high-demand energy sector, utilities and infrastructure developers face increasing pressure to deliver projects more quickly while minimizing disruption to the environment and surrounding ...

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 ...