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.

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Operating companies continually seek new technologies to drill laterals and extended reach wells further, more efficiently and at lower cost. Even with higher oil and gas prices, the challenge to ...

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) ...