Technical challenges while drilling a deep horizontal re-entry well
Journal Article
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· World Oil
OSTI ID:538261
With the objective of establishing commercial gas production, a re-entry program was designed to sidetrack a marginally producing vertical well completed in a naturally fractured carbonate reservoir. The best possible means of achieving this objective was to drill a horizontal wellbore perpendicular to the near vertical fracture trend. This article discusses the technical challenges of drilling a horizontal sidetrack, within a hostile environment, to a then-unprecedented TVD.
- OSTI ID:
- 538261
- Journal Information:
- World Oil, Journal Name: World Oil Journal Issue: 10 Vol. 218; ISSN 0043-8790; ISSN WOOIAS
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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