Drilling deeper, longer and more challenging wells has been made possible by improvements in drilling technologies, including more efficient and effective drilling fluids. Drilling fluids, also ...

PetroChina Tarim Oilfield Co. worked with Southwest Petroleum University researchers to test new drilling fluid technology designed to prevent formation damage for ultradeep fractured tight sandstone ...

Drilling in its broadest sense is any process that involves making a circular hole in a solid material or hard surface using a boring tool. With thousands of applications across industries, drilling ...

Vegetable ester-based drilling fluids may satisfy demanding technical criteria and strict environmental standards for offshore work. The rising world energy demand has led to exploration for oil and ...

On the basis of routine deepwater drilling fluid HEM system, the high temperature and high pressure drilling fluid system for drilling of profundal zone was built by optimizing the low temperature ...

China begins drilling a six-mile-deep scientific well named Shendi Take 1 to explore the depths of the Earth and its secrets.

Regulators and the energy industry need to close regulatory gaps that contributed to one of the worst oil drilling accidents in decades, a federal agency warned yesterday in an unprecedented report.