the fiscal year 2011 budget.The issue is playing an increasingly prominent role in energy debates. The gas drilling method, dubbed “fracking,” involves high-pressure injections of chemicals, water and ...

Hydraulic fracturing, more commonly known as fracking, has been used in the United States for decades — stretching back to the 1940s and 50s. However, the technology boomed in the country during the ...

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 ...

Managed Pressure Drilling (MPD) and Underbalanced Drilling (UBD) techniques represent significant advancements in the safe and efficient extraction of hydrocarbons. MPD employs sophisticated control ...

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) ...