Last week, a group of 40 journalists from 13 countries witnessed Liebherr Construction Equipment’s new LB 44-510 rotary drilling rigs in action on a high-level research project in Darmstadt, Germany.

Operating companies continually seek new technologies to drill laterals and extended reach wells further, more efficiently and at lower cost. Even with higher oil and gas prices, the challenge to ...

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Laser drilling may be key to make previously uneconomic oil or gas deposits commercially attractive as Argonne National Laboratory (Laser Applications Laboratory) and a group of collaborators are ...