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Horizontal drilling technology advances

Journal Article · · Oil and Gas Journal; (USA)
OSTI ID:5820359
Horizontal drilling technology is making further advances in the Texas Austin chalk play as such drilling continues to spread in many U.S. land areas. One company has completed a Cretaceous Austin chalk oil well with the longest horizontal well bore in Texas and what at 1 1/6 miles is believed to be the world's longest medium radius horizontal displacement.
OSTI ID:
5820359
Journal Information:
Oil and Gas Journal; (USA), Journal Name: Oil and Gas Journal; (USA) Vol. 89:9; ISSN OIGJA; ISSN 0030-1388
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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