Arabian Gulf Oil Co.’s (AGOCO) horizontal well programs in various fields in eastern, middle, and western Libyan oil fields have successfully increased initial production rates, although complicating ...

There's an old saying in the oil and gas industry that goes something like this, "the best place to find oil is an oil field." While it's exciting to see what the future holds for newer fields like ...

The change could represent a breakthrough at Chicontepec, a field that holds about one-third of Pemex’s proven reserves but where tricky tight carbonate reservoirs have confounded efforts to boost ...

Pantheon Resources has completed drilling its first horizontal well at Alaska’s North Slope, as the US independent evaluates a play it believes may hold 1.4 billion barrels of oil in recoverable ...

Tsvetana is a writer for Oilprice.com with over a decade of experience writing for news outlets such as iNVEZZ and SeeNews. 81 percent of completed wells in the oil and gas industry were horizontal or ...

Well-control operations using the wait-and-weight method (W&W) in a deepwater horizontal well are harder to implement than in a vertical well. Simulations of well-killing procedures for future ...

EXCO Resources has announced the completion of the Oden 30H-6 in DeSoto Parish, Louisiana, its first Haynesville horizontal well completion. EXCO Resources has announced the completion of the Oden 30H ...

Southwest Gas is eliminating three natural gas-storage wells for each horizontal storage well drilled at the 12,000-acre, 70-well Howell Gas Storage Field, a company representative said. The project ...