Drilling, completing and producing an oil or natural gas well is rarely a smooth process. Operators and service companies alike have procedures in place to address problems that crop up. When Coterra ...

More good news on the oil spill front: around 9 A.M. today, BP began pouring cement into the well in the final phase of its static kill procedure. BP had earlier pumped 2,300 barrels of heavy drilling ...

Maria Burns watched with satisfaction as a three-story-high drilling rig made a racket in her front yard. Normally, the loudest thing on this residential street in Ashland, Ohio, would be the barking ...