One year after a deadly oil-rig explosion set off the worst offshore spill in U.S. history, the environmental minefield of abandoned wells in the Gulf of Mexico is worse than first thought, with no ...

Previously, only American companies manufactured the plugs used for solving numerous deepwell problems like lost-circulation, sidetracking or directional drilling, according to RIPI. "The technology ...

The tricky process of sealing an offshore oil well with cement - suspected as a major contributor to the Gulf of Mexico oil spill disaster - has failed dozens of times in the past, according to an ...

Matador Operating Corp. combated lost-circulation problems in Monument field, Hobbs, NM, by combining tubing release procedures with a specialized cement-plug setting technique. Key to the new ...

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The removal of a 50-tonne concrete and steel plug has allowed access to the containment of the UK's prototype steam generating heavy water reactor (SGHWR) for the first time since it was built in the ...