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Since the late 1980s, directional drilling has been successfully modified and applied to environmental problems. Government and industry technology developers worked diligently to develop new approaches to access the subsurface [...]

Many people in the drilling industry are aware of the benefits of using bentonite drilling mud. Sometimes, though, they are not aware of the various types of bentonite products on [...]

Polymer dispersants are chemical products that block the attraction of positive and negative forces that result in the formation of crystals, granules, deposits and colloidal masses. Polymeric dispersants are synthetic [...]

To find out if laser drilling is feasible, the Gas Technology Institute, the U.S. Department of Energy's National Energy Technology Laboratory and several project partners have joined in a new [...]

The occurrence of metals in ground water often is an unwelcome surprise -- both at sites of known contamination and in drinking water wells located far away from any known [...]

Ground water is one of the nation's most important natural resources is the principal source of drinking water for about 50 percent of the United States population, providing approximately 96 [...]