Directional/complex wells

Designing and Testing of New Rotary-Steerable System for Use Onshore

While rotary-steerable systems (RSSs) dominate the offshore directional-drilling markets, the land-based markets are still dominated by conventional directional-drilling tools. This paper presents a new RSS that is being designed and tested specifically for the onshore markets.

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While rotary-steerable systems (RSSs) dominate the offshore directional-drilling markets, the land-based markets are still dominated by conventional directional-drilling tools. This paper presents a new RSS that is being designed and tested specifically for the onshore markets. The new tool is a short RSS that is designed to deliver a buildup rate of 15°/100 ft. It achieves this by the movement of two eccentric shafts relative to one another within the tool.

Introduction

For directional drilling to be successful, it is important that the drillers have information on the orientation of the tool while they are drilling so they can best align the wellbore orientation to the reservoir target.

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