PO Valley Energy Limited (ASX:PVE) Commences Drilling Sillaro-2 Gas Production Well (ITNews)
The Sillaro-2 production well, at PO Valley Energy Limited's (ASX:PVE) Sillaro gas production field, was spudded today following mobilisation of the drilling equipment to the field.

'Green monster' in Doyle Park conceals a well (The Santa Rosa Press Democrat)
By MIKE McCOY THE PRESS DEMOCRAT Huge sound walls erected in effort to limit noise that will come when drilling begins on a 1,000-foot-deep test well in Santa Rosa

Water well could have deep implications (This Week Marysville)
Water well drilling equipment sat in the park next to the gazebo in the middle of Magnetic Springs. It was June 29, in the afternoon.

Vulcan well starts drilling (The Georgian)
On Friday, Vulcan Minerals Inc. announced...

Tri-State Drilling to serve as Rodeo Parade grand marshals (South Crow River News)
The Hamel Rodeo Parade is returning to Hamel Road in Hamel at 2 p.m., Sunday, July 12 with Tri-State Drilling serving as grand marshals. A 54-year-old family run business, Tri-State Drilling is located on Highway 55 in Plymouth - just up the road from Hamel.

Gas seeps, drilling to be subjects at COGCC meetings in Glenwood (Glenwood Springs Post Independent)
State regulators of the oil and gas industry will be in Glenwood Springs twice this month to discuss a variety of controversial subjects, ranging from pollution coinciding with gas-drilling activities to plans for setting up drilling rigs in a...

Eco Friendly Green Drilling Mud Replaces Oil Based Mud in Haynesville Shale Project (PRWeb)
Rapid Energy Services announced the field application of its Quantum EF drilling mud in a Haynesville Shale drilling project. The Quantum EF uses plant derived ingredients and a water phase to replace diesel oil based muds. The Quantum EF is an eco friendly drilling mud engineered to replace oil based drilling mud. The Quantum EF residual on cuttings can be incorporated into local soil as a ...

Petrominerales to Abandon Chiguiro Este-1 Well (Marketwire)
BOGOTA, COLOMBIA--(Marketwire - July 2, 2009) - Petrominerales Ltd. ("Petrominerales" or the "Company") (TSX:PMG), a 66.7% owned subsidiary of Petrobank Energy and Resources Ltd. (TSX:PBG), announces that the Chiguiro Este-1 exploration well is to be abandoned. Chiguiro Este-1 spudded on June 15, 2009. Drilling and logging operations were completed on July 1, 2009. Logs indicated that the sands ...

Colo. drilling rigs closing in on '60s nuke site (Denver Post)
After decades of controversy, natural-gas drilling rigs are popping up around the 1969 Rulison atomic blast site south of Rifle — a failed experiment in using a nuclear bomb to boost natural-gas production.

100 years old and counting (Register Pajaronian)
For a time, Alvin E. Jackson ran a well-drilling business on farms in rural Alabama, using a drill purchased in part with five pigs. That was more than 70 years ago.