Directional drilling has been an integral part of the oil and gas industry since the 1920s. While the technology has improved over the years, the concept of directional drilling remains the same: ...

HOUSTON —Schlumberger announced the introduction of Autonomous Directional Drilling, which includes solutions to steer autonomously through any section of the wellbore. Leveraging an intelligent and ...

Beaches Energy Services of Jacksonville Beach, Florida -- along with contractor Heart Utilities of Jacksonville, Florida -- demonstrate directional, horizontal boring, pulling 400 feet of conduit to ...

The city of Hudson has restarted directional drilling under stricter safety rules after halting the work following a gas ...

TWINSBURG, Ohio — After Thursday's gas explosion on Hiram Lane in Twinsburg Township destroyed three homes and damaged several others, multiple communities have now announced they're halting ...

A multi-part series on what a job superintendent needs to know about the escalating use of horizontal directional drilling for undergrounding transmission and distribution lines. Martin Cherrington ...

Washington — OSHA has published a Safety and Health Information Bulletin intended to help underground utility workers and employers avoid hazards associated with horizontal directional drilling.

This isn’t the first time I’ve crossed one of my father’s 50-year-old paths. About 10 years ago, on a business trip to South Korea, I shot a photograph of the East Gate in Seoul. Surrounded by ...

The D24x40 Navigator horizontal directional drill has 28,000 pounds of thrust and pullback and 4,200 lb.-ft. of rotational torque. Sound has been reduced to 104 dB(A) with an operator ear reating of ...

Ditch Witch replaces its JT4020 with a 60,000-lb.-thrust directional drill that has a patented two-pipe drilling system Ditch Witch replaced its JT4020 directional drill with the new JT60, that can be ...