Here, a horizontal well is drilled across an oil and gas formation, increasing production by as much as 20 times more than that of its vertical counterpart. Horizontal drilling is any wellbore ...

The state’s horizontal well offset policy has been responsible for hundreds of pluggings in the past two years. In 2016, companies drilling in Weld County plugged 801 wells, up 17.4 percent from the ...

Soon, the city of Broomfield’s landscape could substantially change. Once an oil field, now filled with residential development, the area is dotted with storage tanks and well sites. If a plan by ...

With U.S. oil production costs at $36.20 per barrel, vertical and conventional drilling may help keep costs down and output up Type your search and press Enter Home ...

Energy company that helped develop vertical well drilling lost more than $8 billion in the three months of the year. Latest U.S.

Determining where the next real oil boom will be depends largely on following the technology, and while the Permian Basin has been slower than others to switch from vertical well drilling to ...

Seneca Resources, a wholly owned subsidiary of National Fuel Gas Company, has completed drilling and coring a vertical Marcellus Shale well on Pennsylvania’s Department of Conservation and ...

Its subsidiary, Atmos Pipeline Texas, filed permit applications with the Railroad Commission for two storage wells by recompleting a previously existing vertical well at the site and drilling a ...

The 7-15 vertical well location (see Figure 1) has been prepared for drilling. The proximity of the two locations, approximately 6 kilometers apart, will enable efficient rig transfer and minimize ...

No horizontal drilling permits were filed in the East Texas shale play over the past week, but San Angelo exploration and production company KJ Energy is preparing to drill a vertical gas well.The ...

The vertical well, ... It took over 580 days to complete the 10,910-meter drilling, with more than half of the time -- some 300 days --- spent on the final 910 meters.