Sentences with phrase «directional drilling technologies»

Early shale fracturing and directional drilling technologies developed by the Energy Research and Development Administration (ERDA, later the Department of Energy), the Bureau of Mines, and the Morgantown Energy Research Center (later the National Energy Technology Laboratory);

Oil production is soaring from shale formations in Texas and North Dakota using hydraulic fracturing and directional drilling technology.

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Now, fairness dictates I point out that George Mitchell didn't invent hydraulic fracturing or directional drilling — the two technologies that, when combined, have unleashed the surge in oil and natural gas production the United States has experienced over the last half decade.

Directional drilling and hydraulic - fracturing technologies are dramatically increasing natural - gas extraction.