Oil

ESTIMATING DRILLING COSTS-1: Joint association survey, mechanical risk index methods common in GOM

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, ...
Oil

Subsalt shelf well uses deepwater methods

GulfSlope Energy Inc., Houston, has spudded its first well in a program using deepwater drilling and completion technologies for subsalt exploration on the Gulf of Mexico shelf. GulfSlope Energy Inc., ...
National Academies of Sciences%2c Engineering%2c and Medicine

Macondo Well Deepwater Horizon Blowout: Lessons for Improving Offshore Drilling Safety

The offshore drilling industry has made tremendous technological strides since a freestanding structure for drilling was built in 1937 in the Gulf of Mexico in 14 feet of water, more than a mile ...
Reuters

Shale drilling techniques could lead to a geothermal surge, IEA says

PARIS, Dec 13 (Reuters) - The shale drilling techniques that led to a boom in oil and gas output have also spurred the development of geothermal, which in theory could provide a stable source of power ...

Deep Fission Kicks Off Historic Borehole Drilling for First-of-a-Kind Nuclear Project

Deep Fission, Inc. ("Deep Fission" or the "Company"), an advanced nuclear energy company developing small modular pressurized water reactors installed one mile underground, today announced it has ...