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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit recently held that a group of directional driller consultants were independent contractors, not employees, in large part due to their highly specialized ...

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 ...

Most professionals reach Directional Drilling Supervisor in 4–7 years via field roles (MWD/LWD ? Directional Driller ? Lead Hand) backed by well control certification, offshore safety passports, and ...

Dumping liquid spoils from directional drilling is highly regulated, costly and time consuming. To combat these challenges, Ditch Witch, a Charles Machine Works Company, has partnered with MetaFLO ...