Drilling in its broadest sense is any process that involves making a circular hole in a solid material or hard surface using a boring tool. With thousands of applications across industries, drilling ...

Learn about drilling mud, also known as drilling fluid, which facilitates borehole drilling for oil, gas, and sampling by ...

Mike Chadsey, director of public relations for the Ohio Oil and Gas Association, walks down from an Ascent drilling rig in Belmont County. (Photo by Janelle Patterson) ST. CLAIRSVILLE, Ohio — Between ...

Drilling supervisors at GDF Suez E&P Deutschland GMBH have used a visual road map to control drilling operations since March 2008. The Leer Z5-5 is one of the tight gas wells recently drilled by GDF ...

To tap into geothermal reservoirs, boreholes must be drilled deeply into the earth's crust. Due to the extreme pressures and temperatures involved, this is expensive and time consuming. A research ...

Henry Ford was on to something 100 years ago when he ramped up his operations with the assembly line. It was Dec. 1, 1913, and workers, who had been trained in one of 84 separate steps to build the ...

The U.S. has a plentiful supply of natural gas—a clean-burning, efficient fuel that could help solve the nation’s energy problems, ranging from climate change to dependence on foreign oil, industry ...