EnCana Corp. had a new rig built for reverse-circulation airlift drilling to prevent lost-circulation through thick, fractured, vuggy basalts. Encana was faced with drilling Miocene basalt sections as ...

On a drilling rig towering above quiet cattle farms in Southeast Texas, Eric Williams perched inside the cabin of the 16-story machine, twisting a pair of joysticks to guide a gigantic wrench roaring ...

Based on “Improved Drilling Operations and Wired Drill Pipe and Along-String Measurements – Learning and Highlights from Multiple North Sea Deployments,” SPE/IADC-204029-MS, SPE/IADC International ...

Precision Drilling Corp. made a “strategic purchase” of drill pipe from China before new import tariffs went into effect, the company said on Tuesday while announcing a modest boost to its capital ...

Global oil and gas firm Statoil has begun the deployment of a low-frequency (LF) radio frequency identification solution that will track the use of drill equipment as it is lowered into and removed ...

With rigs in use in many non-traditional areas, emergency responders and company health and safety professionals must work together. If you have been reading the headlines of late, you will notice an ...

Weatherford International Ltd., a global provider of products and services for oil and natural gas wells, is employing radio frequency identification to track its drill pipes destined for offshore oil ...