With increasing depth, geothermal energy offers an almost inexhaustible potential for renewable energy. The drilling costs however, rise exponentially with depth in the case of conventional rotary ...

Last week, a group of 40 journalists from 13 countries witnessed Liebherr Construction Equipment’s new LB 44-510 rotary drilling rigs in action on a high-level research project in Darmstadt, Germany.

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 ...

Shell UK Exploration & Production (Shell Expro) and Schlumberger Oilfield Services announced in April that they had successfully field tested a 43/4-in. slimhole rotary steerable drilling system in ...