A well test via the Wisting Central II horizontal appraisal well in the Barents Sea has recorded a flow rate of more than 5,000 boe/d and has therefore proved the viability of shallow horizontal ...

A Houston oil company continues to develop expertise in drilling shallow horizontal wells near Seguin and Luling. The Railroad Commission of Texas issued a drilling permit to Texas Petroleum ...

Recent enhancements in relief well technology enable operators to drill into prolific reservoirs while maintaining a single relief well contingency plan. Blowout contingency planning is required by ...

The Interior Department found itself in a public dispute Thursday with one of its own agencies — the troubled Minerals Management Service — after an MMS official sent an e-mail contradicting the ...

CORRECTION: This story was updated on Aug. 24, 2015, to correct the number of wells that used more than 1 million gallons of fracking fluid per well. Several thousand near-surface hydraulic fracturing ...

Australia-based independent Karoon Energy is moving ahead with plans to drill a second well at its Neon shallow-water field in the Santos basin offshore Brazil, following encouraging results from the ...

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 in ...

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Several thousand near-surface hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, operations for oil and natural gas production in the U.S. pose a potentially significant risk of contaminating drinking water sources, ...