Directional + Horizontal Drilling

Directional drilling is one of the most popular methods of extracting our natural resources. Our team has experience drilling directional wells on almost every continent.

Directional wells are drilled for several purposes:

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• Increasing the exposed section length through the reservoir by drilling through the reservoir at an angle.

• Drilling into the reservoir where vertical access is difficult or not possible. For instance an oilfield under a town, lake or a difficult to drill formation.

• Allowing more wellheads to be grouped together on one surface location can allow fewer rig moves, less surface area disturbance, and make it easier and cheaper to complete and produce the wells. For instance, up to about 40 wells can be grouped together on an oil platform or jacket offshore. The wells will fan out from the platform into the reservoir below. This concept is being applied to land wells, allowing multiple subsurface locations to be reached from one pad, thereby reducing costs.

• Drilling along the underside of a reservoir-constraining fault allows multiple productive sands to be completed at the highest stratigraphic point.