Updates
January 28, 2014: longer extended laterals, and these are now being drilled because they are under the river. Also, note:
March 28, 2011: A couple days ago, I got into a conversation with "anonymous" over the fact that the operator had lost contact with the gamma detector, and decided to press on anyway. My hunch is that this is not all that unusual. I just happened to look at the file report for the Murex Ventura 11-2H well (#19196). From the report: "A tool failure rendered gamma data unreliable and a decision was made to continue drilling the remainder of the lateral without this information." Gamma was lost at 19,460 feet; TD was 20,420 feet.
March 26, 2011: For an update on this well, go to this site, and look at the first two comments. An alert reader noted that "they" lost contact with the gamma detector at about 21,884 feet but pressed on anyway, without the gamma detector, and reached TD.
