I can remember asking this column’s title question long before I started working for a bentonite company.

I recently was talking with a driller about a job he had just completed.

Consider a new approach to your drilling operations.

"In May of this year, the International Energy Agency issued a report that made an economic case for the adoption of safer drilling practices in gas production facilitated by hydraulic fracturing."

The most expensive problem routinely encountered in geothermal drilling is lost circulation, which is the loss of drilling fluid to pores or fractures in the rock formations being drilled.