All Articles Tagged As: drilling

Report confirms drilling, not earthquake, caused Java mud volcano (6/10/2008)

A mud volcano which has caused millions of dollars worth of damage was caused by the drilling of a gas exploration well ...> Full Article

Unconventional natural gas reservoir poised to dramatically increase U.S. production (1/20/2008)

Natural gas distributed throughout the Marcellus black shale in northern Appalachia could conservatively boost proven U.S. reserves by trillions of cubic feet if gas production companies employ horizontal drilling techniques, according to a Penn State and State University of New York, Fredonia, team. ...> Full Article

Geologist probes undersea seismic zone as part of new deep-drilling experiment (12/15/2007)

The first effort to drill into an undersea zone where massive earthquakes and tsunamis are generated has yielded new data on the stresses that build up there, according to Casey Moore, a professor of Earth and planetary sciences at the University of California, Santa Cruz. ...> Full Article