Sentences with phrase «drill multiple wells»

Companies can also drill multiple wells in any direction from just one drilling pad, creating a honeycomb of tunnels miles beneath the surface that can siphon gas from hundreds of acres.

Not exact matches

The Piceance Basin, which spans much of western and northwestern Colorado, already has multiple well sites, pipelines and processing plants in place from a previous round of drilling in a shallower formation, Ludlam said.

The production at the Tiputini C well site is the first of approximately 276 planned wells, ten drilling platforms, and multiple related pipelines and production facilities.

But late Monday the company announced that it was pulling the floating drill rig's multiple anchors and moving it off the well because of encroaching sea ice.

With that noted, the presentation was different from anything I had seen before, in laying out step - by - step the differences in how you could design a deepwater well, with multiple, redundant fail - safe points and blowout - prevention systems (which is what Shell says it does), and how, according to Leimkuhler, BP did design and drill the well that has so catastrophically failed in the Gulf.

Modern hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling allow multiple wells to be drilled from one spot, reducing the size of the drilling area above ground by as much as 90 percent.

Modern hydraulic fracturing combined with horizontal drilling allows multiple wells to be drilled from one spot, reducing the size of the drilling area above ground by as much as 90 percent.4 Fracking is the key to unlocking vast U.S. shale resources, freeing up oil and natural gas that previously was inaccessible while protecting groundwater supplies and the environment.