Managed Pressure Drilling (MPD) and Underbalanced Drilling (UBD) techniques represent significant advancements in the safe and efficient extraction of hydrocarbons. MPD employs sophisticated control ...
A new drilling technique is opening up vast fields of previously out-of-reach oil in the western United States, helping reverse a two-decade decline in domestic production of crude. Companies are ...
A slide and compound drilling model calculates build-up rate (BUR) of a single bent-angle motor assembly using a physical model and genetic-algorithm back propagation (GA-BP) regression analysis. A ...
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Autonomous robot drills data centers 10x faster than traditional methods with 99.97% accuracy
Built for the high-pressure world of hyperscale infrastructure, DEWALT’s new fleet-capable drilling robot is ...
The U.S. EPA is vowing to finally get to the bottom of underground fracking. Federal environmental officials this week announced they would take on a $1.9 million study of the possible effects on ...
Changes in directional drilling and surveying practices could lead to a reduction in positional errors arising from nonconstant wellbore curvature. Part 1 of this series (OGJ, Oct. 27, 2003, p. 51) ...
Reps. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) and Edward Markey (D-Mass.) today moved a step closer to starting a big fight with the natural gas industry over a controversial drilling technique behind a sharp rise in ...
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