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Drill Stem Testing, Recovery Logging Tool

Horizontal Well Testing offers a unique electronic drill stem testing system that uses wireline inside the drill pipe to power downhole tools and receive telemetry on formation pressures and properties. This system can identify fluids recovered inside the drill pipe after testing zones, distinguishing between drilling mud, water and oil using a recovery logging tool. It is the only DST company that can offer this service to determine conclusively what each tested zone produced and how much, by logging the recovery fluid after each test.

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Drill Stem Testing, Recovery Logging Tool

Horizontal Well Testing offers a unique electronic drill stem testing system that uses wireline inside the drill pipe to power downhole tools and receive telemetry on formation pressures and properties. This system can identify fluids recovered inside the drill pipe after testing zones, distinguishing between drilling mud, water and oil using a recovery logging tool. It is the only DST company that can offer this service to determine conclusively what each tested zone produced and how much, by logging the recovery fluid after each test.

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Drill Stem Testing has been described as ͚Old School͛ technology for evaluating oil and gas
wells. There are exceptions to this misconception. One is the system used by Horizontal Well
Testing of Calgary, Alberta. This is a unique, totally electronic DST system that uses wireline
inside the drill pipe and a wet connect to power up the downhole tools and receive telemetry
for: formation, hydrostatic, temperature, inflate and recovery fluid pressures (over 15 years and
1500 DST͛s so far).

This DST system can be run in vertical, deviated and horizontal wells. It has the capability of not
only showing the hydrostatic head pressure of recovered fluids inside the drill pipe but you can
now use their Recovery Logging Tool (RLT) to run into the drill pipe after the final shut-in and
measure the density of the various fluids that may have entered the drill pipe during the testing
of the formation. You can then look at the Recovery Log and with confidence say this is drilling
mud, this is water or this is oil.

This has been an old question and at present Horizontal Well Testing is the only Drill Stem Test
Company in the world that can offer this new service to their customers. Pulling the test string
and using a mud can to drain each stand so you can identify the recovered fluid and grab a
sample is not a safe option. Also, if you want to run multiple tests on one run in the well it will
be very difficult if not impossible to determine what fluid came from which formation. Now you
can log the recovery after each zone has been tested and say with confidence what each one
produced and how much!

You can run a wireline sampler in conjunction with the Recovery Logging Tool and obtain a
conclusive sample from the recovery fluid of each zone. Trying to catch samples while reversing
the recovery fluids out of the drill string is difficult and the samples usually are not
representative of what flowed in during the flow periods. More often than not you end up with
a blended recovery mixed with lots of drilling mud.

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