If you are new to the oil and gas industry, most things look the same at first: pipes, heavy steel, and big equipment. But ...

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 ...

Well-control operations using the wait-and-weight method (W&W) in a deepwater horizontal well are harder to implement than in a vertical well. Simulations of well-killing procedures for future ...

Canada's Nuclear Waste Management Organization has completed borehole drilling work at Ignace, which is being studied as a possible host area for a deep geological repository for Canada's used nuclear ...

Canada's Nuclear Waste Management Organisation has completed drilling the first borehole near Ignace to a depth of about one kilometre. It is one of five sites in Ontario to be investigated for the ...

L. R. Aalund Managing Editor-Technology The third phase in the world's most sophisticated deep drilling project ended this summer with the borehole at a depth of 3,003 m or 9,852 ft. The scientific ...