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 ...

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 ...

In Part 1 we discussed why there is rapid expansion of Horizontal Directional Drilling (HDD) for undergrounding transmission and distribution line; mainly to prevent storm-related and wildfire outages ...

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 ...

A horizontal drilling drought has gripped a region of North Texas credited as the birthplace of the shale revolution. The Barnett Shale has now gone more than a month without an energy company filing ...

Horizontal Directional Drilling is a trenchless technique of installing underground pipes and conduits that is gaining in popularity. Besides enabling crossings underneath rivers, roads and structures ...

Arabian Gulf Oil Co.’s (AGOCO) horizontal well programs in various fields in eastern, middle, and western Libyan oil fields have successfully increased initial production rates, although complicating ...

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 ...