Announced at ICUEE 2017, the Green Ops process is designed to reduce risk and improve efficiency and profitability on HDD bores “Technology advancements coupled with progressive thinking among ...

Directional drilling is the controlled steering of a wellbore along a planned 3D path to reach subsurface targets that are not vertically aligned with the surface location. It spans planning through ...

Drilling horizontally under the ground veers away from the traditional cut and cover installation. Installing pipes and utilities this way, on a predetermined path, is considered to be more beneficial ...

DALLAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Motive Drilling Technologies, the rapidly growing directional drilling decision-automation company, today announced that they have now guided over 2 Million feet using their ...

Data from Permian basin drilling show the benefits of automation advances. Next-level drilling automation executes steering decisions from the bit guidance system automatically. Slide sequences are ...

Using indices to describe and compare drilling complexity and analyzing the efficiency of the energy applied to formations while drilling can improve performance. The first part of this series ...

I.1 Objective: Drill a collision-safe, high-quality wellbore (low tortuosity, cementable, run-completable) that meets subsurface targets while controlling ECD, vibration, and hole cleaning across all ...

Helmerich & Payne announced a newly formed business entity Thursday that will be used to drive the development of advanced technologies and directional drilling automation solutions. Officials with ...