This New Year, an old trend may become a new trend as conventional drilling in North America is once again in the spotlight at a time when oil prices continue their slump and the unconventional ...

Horizontal Drilling now allows these same operators to drill and set pipe for a mile or more horizontally through this same rock formation.

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 ...

In today’s The Gartman Letter (subscription required), my friend Dennis Gartman featured an excerpt from a January 2013 article by Forbes energy contributor David Blackmon titled “Horizontal ...

If we could take a tiny glass elevator down the trajectory of a Marcellus Shale well, we would see slabs of coal, sandstone, shale and siltstone alternating and colliding with one another for ...

Horizontal drilling involves using a specialized bit to angle the well bore so that it eventually runs more or less flat for several thousand feet through a layer of rock.

The birthplace of the shale revolution is back in the grips of a horizontal drilling permit drought - a situation that’s becoming more frequent. More than five weeks have passed since any oil company ...

OKLAHOMA CITY — The Oklahoma Corporation Commission has called a special meeting for June 30 to discuss whether regulatory changes are needed to accommodate increased horizontal drilling in the state.

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 ...