As the U.S. rig count continues a slow rise in a somewhat muted response to higher prices for crude oil and natural gas, two giants of the industry announced last week that they are partnering in an ...

Abstract:Combining automated pipe handling and drilling capabilities with lighter weight materials is a natural extension of today's "systems" approach to solving exploration and production (E&P) ...

Mineral exploration is often be considered to be a rudimentary process; one of hardcore geoscience, with prospectors poring over maps and collecting rock core samples using drilling technology that is ...

The PACE®-R801 concept rig has safety and efficiency at the core of its design, purpose-built to showcase Nabors technology and to push the boundaries of industry performance and possibilities ...

Halliburton and Sekal have announced the deployment of what they claim to be the world's first automated on-bottom drilling ...

A new, fully automated, oil and gas rig recently made its debut in the Permian Basin. The rig uses digital technology and Canrig robotics to ‘man’ the platform. Other robotic mechanisms have been used ...

DALLAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Motive Drilling Technologies, the rapidly growing directional drilling decision-automation company, today announced that they have now guided over 2 Million feet using their ...

The world’s first fully automated land drilling rig has completed its first well, according to Nabors Industries Ltd, the company with its principal executive office in Hamilton. The global oil and ...

A successful test in the North Sea aboard a drilling platform named after a fairy tale princess promises to reduce the number of people needed on offshore rigs and shift those jobs to control centers ...

NASA scientists plan to drill someday into the surface of Mars to look for water and signs of possible life. So, scientists are developing an automated, unmanned drill rig that can operate totally on ...

Drilling in its broadest sense is any process that involves making a circular hole in a solid material or hard surface using a boring tool. With thousands of applications across industries, drilling ...

After years in the making, a new fully automated drilling rig recently made its debut in Permian Basin. While this has long been a pipedream, restrictions faced by many oil and gas companies during ...