Editing Directional drilling (section)

===Stealing oil===
In 1990, [[Iraq]] accused [[Kuwait]] of stealing Iraq's oil through slant drilling.<ref>{{cite web|title=How the Gulf Crisis Began and Ended (The Gulf Crisis and Japan's Foreign Policy)|url=http://www.mofa.go.jp/policy/other/bluebook/1991/1991-2-1.htm|publisher=Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan|access-date=28 January 2014}}</ref>
The [[United Nations]] redrew the border after the [[Gulf War|1991 Gulf war]], which ended the seven-month [[Invasion of Kuwait|Iraqi occupation]] of Kuwait. As part of the reconstruction, 11 new oil wells were placed among the existing 600. Some farms and an old naval base that used to be in the Iraqi side became part of Kuwait.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/story?section=news/national_world&id=3413018 | title=Iraq to Reopen Embassy in Kuwait | publisher=[[ABC Inc.]] | date=4 September 2005 | access-date=5 March 2012 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140102194548/http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/story?section=news%2Fnational_world&id=3413018 | archive-date=2 January 2014 | url-status=dead }}</ref>

In the mid-twentieth century, a slant-drilling scandal occurred in the huge [[East Texas Oil Field]].<ref>{{cite web | author = Julia Cauble Smith | title = East Texas Oilfield | url = https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/doe01 | access-date = 2014-09-23 | work = Handbook of Texas Online | publisher = Texas State Historical Association | date = 2010-06-12}}</ref>