Friday, January 28, 2011

XOM Sets Extended Reach Record -- Not a Bakken Story, But Maybe Some Day

Link here.

Data points:
  • XOM's subsidiary, Exxon Neftegas Limited, offshore far east Russia
  • Sakhalin-1 Project, an international consortium
  • Odoptu OP-11 well: total depth -- 40,502 feet (12,345 meters or 7.67 miles)
  • World record for extended-reach drilling (ERD)
  • Horizontal reach of 37,648 feet (11,475 or 7.13 miles): also a world record of horizontal reach
  • Record-setting well completed in 60 days
Wow, a 7-mile horizontal lateral and almost 8 miles to total depth.
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2 comments:

  1. donJanuary 29, 2011 at 9:09 AM

    does the NDIC have a 4480 spacing unit..
    i see this technokogy useful for drilling under lake sacajewa, drilling into the teddy Roosevelt park, and big towns like Williston, Dickinson.
    i wonder what the horsepower of the drilling unit was??

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  2. Bruce OksolJanuary 29, 2011 at 9:37 AM

    On the GIS map server, the largest spacing unit (according to the legend) is 3,200 acres.

    However, in the January dockets:

    Case 13987: MRO, to establish a 5,120-acre spacing unit in McGregory Buttes-Bakken, Dunn County, for up to 8 horizontal wells.

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