New technologies such as horizontal drilling and fracking led to a new boom era of oil and gas production in texas beginning in 2008 and continuing through today 2306
Directional drilling can reduce oil and gas wells’ surface impacts while also improving production. It also called horizontal drilling or deviated drilling, it involves deliberately shifting a well’s path from the vertical. Directional drilling or slant drilling is the practice of drilling non-vertical wells. Directional and horizontal drilling have been used to reach targets beneath adjacent lands. Horizontal drilling and penetrating help oil and gas producers to limit the adverse effects on surface and help to bore various wells from a single cushion.
Whereas fracking is the process of drilling down into the earth before a high-pressure water mixture is directed at the rock to release the gas inside. Water, sand and chemicals are injected into the rock at high pressure which allows the gas to flow out to the well head
Horizontal drilling and fracking led to a new boom era of oil and gas production in texas since 2008
Grade: 9
Subject: history
Chapter: oil and gas production
Keywords: oil and gas production, horizontal drilling, fracking, texas, New technologies
