Mike Chadsey, director of public relations for the Ohio Oil and Gas Association, walks down from an Ascent drilling rig in Belmont County. (Photo by Janelle Patterson) ST. CLAIRSVILLE, Ohio — Between ...

The two- to three-day process of hydraulic fracturing for oil and gas is perhaps one of the most misunderstood drilling practices, becoming as bad of a word in some circles as a racial slur.Entire ...

Drilling supervisors at GDF Suez E&P Deutschland GMBH have used a visual road map to control drilling operations since March 2008. The Leer Z5-5 is one of the tight gas wells recently drilled by GDF ...

A new technique developed by researchers at Sandia National Laboratories using an inexpensive disposable fiber optics telemetry system to relay real-time information about the drilling process is ...

LAS CRUCES - A hydrologist working with the city to build three new wells recently held a short course to explain the drilling process. “The ideal well is efficient, with very little sand production,” ...

Drilling deeper, longer and more challenging wells has been made possible by improvements in drilling technologies, including more efficient and effective drilling fluids. Drilling fluids, also ...

FARMINGTON — Federal documents indicate some progress was made during 2017 in the handling of backlogged onshore drilling lease permits on public lands. But hard figures on how many permits are still ...

AFTER the Gulf oil spill began last month, the government should be doing everything it can to prevent another spill. So far, the Obama administration has failed. Oil companies are still getting ...

The turbine-engine repair and refurbishing business is growing because of ground-based and aerospace turbines in need of regular maintenance. The airline industry might be in the dumps. But the ...