Multiple-Leg Completions Improve Drilling Performance at the San Jacinto Field
- Key words
- Drilling; whipstock; San Jacinto field; Nicaragua; forked completion; multi-lateral
- Location
- San Jacinto, Nicaragua
- Conference
- Geothermal Resources Council Transactions
- Year
- 2012
- Session
- Drilling; Forked wells
- Language
- English
Abstract
Discovering new methodologies and alternative applications of current technology has become essential for continued economic drilling. As new technologies and drilling equipment have continued to evolve together with more efficient drilling practices, increasing optimization has become almost mandatory in the Geothermal drilling industry especially as new project development and financing become even more challenging. The utilization of whipstock methodology and directional drilling technology to create secondary and functional legs from a common wellbore provide a very cost effective means of field development and exploitation.
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