The U.S. produced more oil in 2023 than has ever been produced in any year by any country, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration. Big Oil has become more productive as horizontal ...

The CBC has received internal government documents revealing the Yukon government's draft strategy for hydraulic fracturing in the territory. The documents include a PowerPoint presentation by the ...

RALEIGH, North Carolina (Reuters) - North Carolina moved closer to joining a number of states that have embraced shale gas exploration using hydrofracking, under legislation the state's House of ...

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 ...

Horizontal drilling isn't new. Such wells have been drilled for the better part of a century. But combining it with hydraulic fracturing to produce gas and oil from shale is a far more recent ...

Horizontal drilling and fracking as a combined technique grew in popularity in part because it was shown to increase the production potential of oil and gas wells by making it possible to access ...

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