Horizontal drilling isn't new. Such wells have been drilled for the better part of a century. But combining it with hydraulic fracturing to produce gas and oil from shale is a far more recent ...
Horizontal drilling and fracking as a combined technique grew in popularity in part because it was shown to increase the ...
Efficient drilling in shale reservoirs requires detailed 3-dimensional (3D) horizontal well trajectories. An orthogonal-arc trajectory (OAT) method assumes a single constant curvature in the curved ...
In today’s high-demand energy sector, utilities and infrastructure developers face increasing pressure to deliver projects more quickly while minimizing disruption to the environment and surrounding ...