An environmental expert has found ‘dangerously high’ levels of contamination in the earth just outside the fracking test drilling site at Barton Moss, a court has heard. Dr Aidan Foley discovered a ...

Mud pulse telemetry is a pivotal technology in modern drilling operations, enabling the transmission of downhole measurements to the surface via modulated pressure pulses in the circulating drilling ...

Fracking, also known as hydraulic fracturing, is a technique used to get oil and gas out of the ground. Water, sand and a cocktail of chemicals are pumped deep underground at high pressure to open up ...

It’s a complex engineering process that has attracted a lot of attention and controversy – but for many people in Nottinghamshire, fracking remains an unknown quantity. In the United States, though, ...

I.1 Purpose: Mud engineering during drilling designs, builds, monitors, and continuously optimizes the drilling fluid to enable safe, efficient hole-making, wellbore stability, pressure control, ...

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 ...

American Uranium (AMU) has announced the completion of its 2025 resource expansion drilling programme at the Lo Herma in-situ recovery (ISR) uranium project in Wyoming’s Powder River Basin, US.

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Despite the sand dunes surrounding it, the township of Xiaohaotu in Shaanxi province, in central China, had ...