Spudding is the first step to drilling a well in the oil and gas industry. A large drill bit is initially used to clear a surface hole. The initial drilling is lined with casing and cement to ...

A well test via the Wisting Central II horizontal ... than 5,000 boe/d and has therefore proved the viability of shallow horizontal drilling needed to develop Wisting field, OMV AS reported.

If we could take a tiny glass elevator down the trajectory of a Marcellus Shale well, we would see ... That means drilling horizontal wells as shallow as 2,000 feet underground and fracturing ...

The diamond drill bit produced by Sinopec Oilfield Equipment Corp in Wuhan, Hubei province, is playing a big part in excavating an ultra-deep oil well in the Tarim Basin of the Xinjiang Uygur ...

The company has a three-month contract for the use of the jack-up drilling rig Ensco 104 at a dayrate in the mid-$150,000s, according to rig owner Ensco. PVEP drilled its first well in Block M-2 ...