Bit walk is the natural tendency of the drill bit to drift in a lateral direction during drilling and occurs in every operation. Operators planning and designing wellbore trajectories, therefore, must ...

Directional drilling in shale formations is applied to place long horizontal laterals precisely within thin, mechanically favorable target intervals, enabling multi-stage stimulation and economic ...

At-a-Glance: Directional drilling in tight reservoirs is a precision workflow that plans, places, and drills long, low-tortuosity laterals within a thin target, while controlling ECD, hole cleaning, ...

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IDS to Distribute Minnovare Azimuth Aligner®. International Directional Services (IDS) has entered into an agreement with Minnovare to distribute the Azimuth Aligner® drill rig alignment system. The ...