The Borehole Battery uses a concentrating solar power parabolic trough to heat sand in a closed-loop pipe, which extends into an idle oil well borehole, storing heat at about 200C. Courtesy: Geo2Watts ...

An 82-year-old oil well that broke loose last month and spewed oily water into the fragile coastal marsh of Plaquemines Parish will be permanently shut and sealed off, the owner-operator said ...

A state energy agency is calling a blowout at a Chevron-operated oil well in Weld County an "unprecedented" incident. The blowout occurred April 6 at the Bishop Well near Galeton in northeast ...

Snubbing units have evolved into one of the most capable and efficient well servicing tools in the oil & gas industry. In the 1920's, the need for a rig to work with pressures at surface drove the ...

E ver since the Nazis started streaking like fire toward Russia’s oilfields, observers have wondered: How do you wreck an oil well?. An oil well is a deep, narrow, steel-lined hole in the ground ...

The oil well blowout in Weld County, ... and a loss of control over the pressure within the well bore,” said Kristin Kemp, ECMC’s community relations manager.

This borehole would have been about 10 times deeper than a mined repository, but such depths are not unusual for oil and gas boreholes. Governments aren’t the only ones interested in the approach.

Pemberton Energy Ltd. has drilled its 10-15-82-3-W6M well to a total depth of 2395.5 m in the Precambrian basement and completed logging the well on March 21, 2008.

An 82-year-old oil well that broke loose last month and spewed oily water into the fragile coastal marsh of Plaquemines Parish will be permanently shut and sealed off, the owner-operator said ...