Directional Drilling & Hydraulic Fracturing (Fracking)

(The article and photos direct from ConocoPhillips WWW site.)








Oil and natural gas deposits are found
throughout the world in underground formations, such as sandstone, carbonates,
coal and shale. Gaining access to these deposits involves drilling vertical,
horizontal or multilateral wells to the target formation.


Various completion techniques, such as
hydraulic fracturing, are then