Horizontal drilling and fracking as a combined technique grew in popularity in part because it was shown to increase the production potential of oil and gas wells by making it possible to access ...

Despite early predictions of a natural gas crisis in the early 2000s, the U.S. dramatically increased its natural gas production, particularly through fracking and horizontal drilling techniques. This ...

It is hard to believe that just a decade ago, there was a massive backlash against fracking. This was the technology pioneered by drillers such as Harold Hamm of Continental Resources, which unlocked ...

The judicial support for fracking means that horizontal fracking can begin at the Preston New Road site at Little Plumpton in Lancashire. Hydraulic fracturing describes a well-stimulation technique ...

Efficient drilling in shale reservoirs requires detailed 3-dimensional (3D) horizontal well trajectories. An orthogonal-arc trajectory (OAT) method assumes a single constant curvature in the curved ...

In today’s high-demand energy sector, utilities and infrastructure developers face increasing pressure to deliver projects more quickly while minimizing disruption to the environment and surrounding ...