Underbalanced drilling (UBD) intentionally keeps bottomhole pressure below the formation pore pressure to allow controlled inflow while drilling. It sits at the intersection of well construction and ...

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 ...

Try as so many private and government organizations might, switching everywhere on Earth over to clean, renewable energy — including some strange sources being explored — is still a long way away.

When a Texas oil company first announced controversial plans to reactivate three drilling rigs off the coast of Santa Barbara ...

When you think about offshore oil rigs, what comes to mind is what you may have seen in movies — skeletal towers in the middle of a vast sea, some flares cutting through the darkness, and a crew that ...

An offshore oil platform with Santa Cruz Island in the background in California's Santa Barbara Channel. (Marli Miller/UCG/via Getty Images) More than 50 years ago, a catastrophic oil spill along ...

Did you know that after the completion of the construction of one of the tallest buildings in the world - the Empire State Building - many people were afraid to get close to it? They believed that a ...

The Trump administration plans to continue issuing permits for oil drilling and do other work on “priority conventional ...