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Directional drilling involves starting vertically at the surface and gradually turning the drill bit to drill horizontally. Instruments placed down the drill pipe help navigate and determine the direction to turn the bit. Turning is done with a hydraulic motor between the drill pipe and bit without affecting the vertical pipe. Directional drilling when combined with hydraulic fracturing increases well costs but improves production rates and total recovery, justifying the higher costs.

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Uselfess Document For No New and Just Od: 5 Drilling Methodology

Directional drilling involves starting vertically at the surface and gradually turning the drill bit to drill horizontally. Instruments placed down the drill pipe help navigate and determine the direction to turn the bit. Turning is done with a hydraulic motor between the drill pipe and bit without affecting the vertical pipe. Directional drilling when combined with hydraulic fracturing increases well costs but improves production rates and total recovery, justifying the higher costs.

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Uselfess document for no new and just od 5 Drilling Methodology

Directional drilling commences at the surface as a vertical well. This


drilling will commence until the drill front is approximately 100 m above
the target. At this point, there is a hydraulic motor attached between
the drill pipe and the drill bit. This motor can alter the direction of the
drill bit without affecting the pipe that leads up to the surface.
Furthermore, once the well is being drilled at a certain angle, many
additional instruments are placed down the hole to help navigate and
determine where the drill bit should go. This information is then
communicated to the surface and then to the motor, which will control
the direction of the bit.
Combining horizontal drilling with hydraulic fracturing can cause the
drilling and completion stages of a well to cost upwards of three times
as much as a vertical well. However, with the improved production
rate and total recovery, this capital cost is easily justified with revenue.
As stated earlier, many wells today would not be accessible or
feasible without these methods [11]. Fig. 4.8 illustrates the concept of
directional drilling

Directional Drilling
Surface directional drilling to drain coalbed gas from reservoirs is only
recently used in the United States, Australia, and China, even though
the technology, which was used for several decades by the oil and
gas industry, can be traced to the nineteenth century. The coalbed
gas and coalmine methane industries have increasingly relied
on directional drilling to unite vertical and horizontal drilling of the
same coal bed. For the coalbed gas industry, the technical concept of
a long horizontal well theoretically draining coalbed gas from a single
site in a 2.6 km2 area can readily replace 16 vertical wells drilled at
0.16 km2 spacing (USEPA, 2009). For the underground coalmine gas
industry, surface-initiated di

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