April 2012
Special Focus

Improving horizontal drilling efficiency: A case study from the Woodford shale

A high-build-rate, rotary steerable drilling system is delivering well profiles previously possible only with positive displacement motors, yet with the superior rate of penetration and wellbore quality of a fully rotating system.


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