Announced at ICUEE 2017, the Green Ops process is designed to reduce risk and improve efficiency and profitability on HDD bores “Technology advancements coupled with progressive thinking among ...

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 ...

Horizontal directional drilling (HDD) was introduced in the late 1980s; the process was not an overnight success. Drill manufacturers spent the initial years explaining to skeptical contractors the ...

At-a-Glance: Directional drilling in tight reservoirs is a precision workflow that plans, places, and drills long, low-tortuosity laterals within a thin target, while controlling ECD, hole cleaning, ...

I.1 Objective: Drill a collision-safe, high-quality wellbore (low tortuosity, cementable, run-completable) that meets subsurface targets while controlling ECD, vibration, and hole cleaning across all ...

Data from Permian basin drilling show the benefits of automation advances. Next-level drilling automation executes steering decisions from the bit guidance system automatically. Slide sequences are ...

Using indices to describe and compare drilling complexity and analyzing the efficiency of the energy applied to formations while drilling can improve performance. The first part of this series ...

NEW YORK/HOUSTON (Reuters) - Scientific Drilling International (SDI), the U.S. oil industry's largest independent directional drilling firm, is being offered to potential buyers at a valuation of more ...

City Council yesterday opened bids for one directional boring machine designed to improve water line replacement in the City. Andy Helms, Assistant to the Mayor for Public Works, described the new ...