In today’s The Gartman Letter (subscription required), my friend Dennis Gartman featured an excerpt from a January 2013 article by Forbes energy contributor David Blackmon titled “Horizontal Drilling: ...

Learn the difference between horizontal and vertical drilling, and why we think vertical drilling is the way to go.

A major infrastructure project is underway beneath the waters of East Bay. It’s going to help secure the water supply for ...

The Robbins H-100 was a high-production blast-hole drill employed by a number of surface-coal-mining companies in the Illinois Basin during the 1960s and 1970s. Starting with development work in 1960 ...

A horizontal drilling drought has gripped a region of North Texas credited as the birthplace of the shale revolution. The Barnett Shale has now gone more than a month without an energy company filing ...

OKLAHOMA CITY — The Oklahoma Corporation Commission has called a special meeting for June 30 to discuss whether regulatory changes are needed to accommodate increased horizontal drilling in the state.

The birthplace of the shale revolution is back in the grips of a horizontal drilling permit drought - a situation that’s becoming more frequent. More than five weeks have passed since any oil company ...