Here, a horizontal well is drilled across an oil and gas formation, increasing production by as much as 20 times more than that of its vertical counterpart. Horizontal drilling is any wellbore ...

By John Lee. Midland Oil Company (MdOC) has successfully restarted a previously idle vertical oil well in the Ahdab field, using horizontal drilling technology. The operation was carried out in ...

YPFB recently began drilling the vertical well Yope-X1 (YOP-X1) at a programmed depth of 3,241 meters, with an investment of more than US$ 13 million,” the state oil company said earlier this year.