Horizontal drilling and fracking as a combined technique grew in popularity in part because it was shown to increase the ...

Oil majors are teaming up with start-ups in geothermal energy. Drilling of wells to tap geothermal energy is expensive, but companies have managed to lower costs in recent years. Fervo, a fast-growing ...

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 ...

As the U.S. energy boom has taken off over the past several years, the term "fracking" has become a household name. But fracking, which involves pumping massive quantities of water, proppant, and ...

Egypt is seeking to increase oil and natural gas production by expanding the use of horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing technologies, the presidency said after a meeting chaired by President ...