Drilling company sees changing approach to drilling surface holes as an advantage for the industry Danny Tate is the new district manager for the drilling division of Key Energy Services. After 18 years in the field, Tate finally took an office job. He sees this as an opportunity to make changes in the industry and … Read more
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Drilling company sees changing approach to drilling surface holes as an advantage for the industry Danny Tate is the new district manager for the drilling division of Key Energy Services. After 18 years in the field, Tate finally took an office job. He sees this as an opportunity to make changes in the industry and … Read more
Ukraine is a large country, 233,000 sq. mi. (603,000 square kilometers, or slightly smaller than Texas) that has some of the largest potential in the world for utilizing its coal bed methane (CBM) resources. The Donbas-Dnieper Basin, also known as Donets Basin, is the most important coal mining region in eastern Ukraine, mined since the … Read more
Stockdale Mine Supply and Keystone Drill Services are names synonymous with drilling in the Eastern United States. With the recent boom in the Marcellus region, the companies are close to new customers while continuing to serve their base of traditional oil and gas, water well, geothermal, coal mining, quarry and construction customers. Barney Stockdale and … Read more
Drilling companies expect safer drilling features from equipment innovations that reduce the chances of crews putting themselves in harm’s way. The new automatic pipe loading and handling system on the Atlas Copco RD20 exceeds expectations of safety while making drilling operations faster. One drilling company in the Surat Basin, Australia, is relying on the safety … Read more
Coal Bed Methane reserves The Raton Basin stretches from southern Colorado to northern New Mexico, running about 30 miles long and 30 miles wide. Although this coal field has been an energy source for over 100 years and has a colorful history, in recent years the energy has come more from methane gas in the … Read more
They said it couldn’t be done,” was Bob Morris’ opening comment. “They” refers to everyone who has ever talked about air drilling the red bed strata in West Texas’ Permian Basin oil patch. Morris, Drilling Supervisor for Butch’s Rat Hole and Anchor Service Company, didn’t agree with this long-standing assumption. Scott Bryant, President of Butch’s … Read more
Carbon dioxide (CO2) is the gas form of dry ice. The solid dry ice is created when carbon dioxide is cooled under high pressure, forming a liquid. It is then allowed to expand under reduced pressure to produce “snow.” The snow is compressed into dry ice blocks, slices or pellets as the end product. The … Read more
Technology is a strange thing. We talk about it, and the world benefits from it most of the time, but personal acceptance doesn’t always move at the same speed. We often want to wait and see the benefits of something, or someone else’s failures, before we jump aboard. EDGE is the new down-the-hole monitoring … Read more
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