The Anchorbit system places two collar sections behind the drill bit, each with extendable pistons capable of pushing out and gripping onto the bore shaft. When the upper collar grips the bore, the ...

Some residents of Vandiver, a small, mountainous community just east of Birmingham, are now without water, after a project to install fiber cable underground hit the aquifer supplying their wells.

The new patent introduces a multi-stage drilling system that enables precise identification and controlled penetration of the transition zone, a critical boundary between solid rock and partially ...

Geothermal energy now stands out as a reliable, low-carbon solution in the transition to a balanced energy mix. While conventional geothermal systems rely on specific geological conditions, such as ...

Scientists in the United States are preparing to drill into one of the country’s most closely watched volcanoes in a bid to ...

Quaise is taking its technology from the lab to field trials for the first time this year. A beam of energy hit the slab of rock, which quickly began to glow. Pieces cracked off, sparks ricocheted, ...

In 2006, CJSC Elvary Neftegaz deployed a riserless mud-recovery (RMR) system off Sakhalin Island. An RMR system enables dual-gradient subsea drilling operations to take place with the well open at the ...

The sound of drilling echoes in the New Mexico sunshine. You'd be mistaken for thinking this is just another instance of fossil fuel exploration; however, the large hole being bored into the ground ...

A hole is nothing. Or more precisely, it’s the absence of something—wood, metal, concrete, or any number of different materials. Since holes are nothing, why do we care about them and how to make them ...

In today's world, any homeowner with even a modest amount of knowledge and experience can utilize power tools to construct ...