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U. S. horizontal drilling continues to spread

Journal Article · · Oil and Gas Journal; (USA)
OSTI ID:5821110
This paper reports that horizontal drilling is still spreading in onshore U.S. oil fields. One company completed a shallow well producing oil by gravity drainage through three horizontal legs about 120{sup {degrees}} apart on the La Barge platform in Wyoming. The author reports successful Austin chalk horizontal drilling in Sabine County, East Texas. Another horizontal completion of Cretaceous Niobrara was reported and several other wells were drilling or staked in Silo field, Laramie County, Wyoming.
OSTI ID:
5821110
Journal Information:
Oil and Gas Journal; (USA), Journal Name: Oil and Gas Journal; (USA) Vol. 88:50; ISSN 0030-1388; ISSN OIGJA
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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