JPT

Vol. 59 No. 7

July 2007

Multilateral/Extended Reach

Extended Reach: New-Generation Frontier Drilling Rigs

Common features of frontier development are fragile environment and high operating costs, which require unique operating methods. Planned well trajectories have departures and complexity such that feasibility risk is a critical part of the evaluation before investing in these projects. Primarily, this risk is determined on the basis of rig design and capacity to drill these extreme-reach well designs. Aspects of land-rig design, procedures, and operations that enable continued drilling of more-complex well trajectories with longer departures are discussed.

View a Synopsis of OTC 19067 as published in JPT.

This article, written by Technology Editor Dennis Denney, contains highlights of paper OTC 19067, “Extended Reach: New-Generation Frontier Drilling Rigs,” by F.J. Husband, SPE, George Bitar, SPE, and Mark Quinlan, SPE, Parker Drilling Company, prepared for the 2007 Offshore Technology Conference, Houston, 30 April–3 May.

Copyright 2007 Offshore Technology Conference. Reproduced by permission.

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The full-length paper is available for purchase at the OTC Library.  The paper has not been peer reviewed.