Tuesday, April 22, 2014

Stacking Horizontals And Dual Laterals In The Shale Oil And Gas Industry

A reader asked about new terms being used in the shale oil and gas industry. Here's a nice graphic from a recent SandRidge presentation:


Note: the stacked lateral is different than what they are doing in North Dakota. In the Bakken, for the most part, each horizontal lateral is separately drilled from the surface; in the graphic above, note that the two horizontals are coming off the same vertical well. 

In the North Dakota Bakken we are not seeing much (any?) of either. In Montana, Oasis (or was it Slawson?) has drilled dual laterals, and CLR has recently drilled a well with six laterals.