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 ...

Drilling horizontally under the ground veers away from the traditional cut and cover installation. Installing pipes and utilities this way, on a predetermined path, is considered to be more beneficial ...

Inherent risks exist in any construction project, particularly when installing an underground transmission line. Project partners often run into unexpected encounters when working beneath the earth’s ...

New, automated closed-loop steering devices are significantly reducing deviations from ideal wellpath in horizontal wells. These devices immediately counteract deviations from the planned path through ...

DALLAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Motive Drilling Technologies, the rapidly growing directional drilling decision-automation company, today announced that they have now guided over 2 Million feet using their ...

Using indices to describe and compare drilling complexity and analyzing the efficiency of the energy applied to formations while drilling can improve performance. The first part of this series ...