Directional drilling has been an integral part of the oil and gas industry since the 1920s. While the technology has improved over the years, the concept of directional drilling remains the same: ...

Directional drilling is used to precisely place wellbores within the most productive parts of the reservoir and to increase reservoir contact, thereby boosting inflow capacity and ultimate recovery ...

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) ...

EnCana says this gives them the opportunity to prove their directional drilling method in Jonah, while the BLM says the success of the pilot project will be taken into consideration of the industry's ...

A concept that employs expandable-profile liners, developed to shutoff high-pressure water flows in drilling operations, has proven to be effective for isolating water influx from directional and ...

The city of Mandan will use directional drilling to collect diesel deposits from beneath Main Street. The contamination was caused by a diesel spill by Burlington Northern Railroad for several decades ...