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Directional Drilling
Horizontal Drilling
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Horizontal Drilling
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Why Drill Horizontal Wells?
Increase Reserves
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Why Drill Horizontal Wells?
Increase Injectivity
- (steam, water, polymers, etc.)
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Production Rates
Oryx - Austin Chalk
12 507 42
15 215 14
5 107 21
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Production Rates
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Drilling Costs
Austin Chalk (1993)
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Prudhoe Bay
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Long Radius (~1,000-3,000 ft) {~2-6 deg/100 ft}
Top Drive
Drill with 90-ft stands instead of 30-ft joints
Circulate while pulling drillpipe out of hole
Rotate drillpipe while pulling out of hole
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New Drilling Technology
Mud Motors
Drill without rotating pipe
Change hole direction while
drilling
Steerable systems
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Potential Problems in Horizontal
Drilling
• Preventing/Remedying differential
sticking
• Excessive torque
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Potential Problems in Horizontal
Drilling
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Summary
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Method:
Build Radius: ~ 20 - 40 ft
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Method:
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Horizontal Well Pair
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Horizontal Well Pair
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Vertical Injection Wells and
Horizontal Production Well
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