Benefits
Economic Benefits
- Application of radial drilling technology will enhance production rates of oil and gas wells/fields and increase their recoverable reserves.
- It outperforms conventional stimulation methods at a lower cost, in reduced application time and with higher potential production results.
- Therefore, applying the technology to your wells will result in improved profitability and greater return on stimulation investment.
Technical Benefits
- Improved and extended drainage area in productive formations.
- Reach beyond the damaged area of the well-bore.
- Applicable in both high-productivity conventional reservoirs and low-permeability heterogeneous, layered reservoirs.
Radial Drilling penetration greatly exceeds conventional (perforation) penetration and can reach substantially beyond the damaged area of the well-bore.
- Radial drilling creates a round-shaped hole by blasting the formation to powder with high fluid pressure.
- Hole size depends on formation strength, confining strengths and compressive loads from overburden and matrix stress, as well as on the speed of penetration of the jet From surface tests an average hole size of 4-5cm in diameter was obtained.
Small equipment and therefore:
- No need for large rotary rigs.
- Does not require mud pits (environmentally sensitive).
- Additional directed well stimulation optional through laterals.
- No logging expenses.
