ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) -- No workers were injured or oil spilled when an exploratory well being drilled by a new company to Alaska's North Slope had an apparent blow-out Wednesday. An exploratory well ...

Lone Star Drills, a division of Little Beaver Inc. and manufacturer of portable drilling equipment, upgraded its LS200H and LS200H+ model drills with a Flomax 10 mud pump powered by an 8-hp Honda ...

MUD-FLUID is now an important factor in oilfield development, but although it has actually been in use for more than sixty years, comparatively little technical literature is available on the subject.

Rotary steerable, directional-drilling systems increased rate of penetration (ROP) and saved more than 100 days of rig time when used to drill complex 3D wellpaths in the 121/4-in. and 81/2-in. hole ...

Two years' of global public debate over the cause of the Java mud volcano, Lusi, has concluded. World scientists conclude that drilling, not an earthquake, was the cause of east Java mud volcano at ...

HOUSTON (Reuters) - BP Chief Operating Officer Doug Suttles said on Wednesday it appears drilling mud, not oil, was gushing from a ruptured undersea well six hours into an effort to halt a growing oil ...

By John Lee. The Ministry of Oil has announced the completion of drilling the deepest horizontal well at the Bazargan oil ...

The eruption of the Lusi mud volcano in Indonesia was caused by drilling for oil and gas, a meeting of 74 leading geologists has concluded. Lusi erupted in May 2006 and continues to spew out boiling ...