drilling

Fossil fuels pollute the air when they are extracted and when they are burned, but the steps between those two points involve far more than familiar scenes of drilling equipment and smoke-filled power plants.

Once his skills were sharp enough, Matsuzawa worked up the courage to send footage of himself drilling field goals to college football programs across the Pacific.

Some proposals envision landing spacecraft on the surface and drilling through the crust to reach the ocean beneath, in order to look for chemical signs of life that might be preserved there.

America’s real comparative advantage is its workers of all stripes—everywhere from factory floors to drilling rigs, corporate cubicles to garage startups—who devise new ways of doing business.

Gas producers choked back output and slashed their drilling plans last year in response to low prices, but they have become so efficient that overall production levels barely budged from their record-setting course.