as the Father of HDD, crossed the Pajaro River in northern California in 1971. Horizontal directional drilling (HDD) has gained popularity in the power delivery industry for undergrounding ...

"The global horizontal directional drillings market growth is driven by increasing demand for underground utilities, infrastructure development, and the need for more efficient and environmentally ...

Horizontal directional drilling (HDD) was introduced in the late 1980s; the process was not an overnight success. Drill manufacturers spent the initial years explaining to skeptical contractors the ...

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 ...

WALHALLA, N.D. When Larry Kotchman first learned of plans to build a crude oil pipeline through Cavalier and Pembina counties, his first thought was the need to protect a valuable and environmentally ...

Oilfield workers with Bramwell Petroleum set up a drilling derrick for a new oil well near Spivey in 2012. File photo 2013 presented some pretty confusing lessons about the oil industry in Kansas. On ...

Determining the critical or optimum mud weight is not an easy task, especially when drilling horizontal wells. Drilling mud weight is an important factor in drilling, demanding significant attention ...

Three years after the first successful well reached the 11,000-foot-deep Haynesville shale formation in northwest Louisiana, more than 1,060 wells using new horizontal drilling and "fracking" methods ...

Over the past several decades, various methods have been proposed to evaluate drilling costs and complexity, but because of the large number of factors and events that affect drilling performance, ...