Directional drilling will allow recovery of oil for miles around a central location.

An important application of global geomagnetic field models is in directional drilling for oil production.

It has set multiple industry records for depth, rate of penetration and directional drilling.

"I said, 'Now how in the heck do you think you're going to do directional drilling with the situation we have here?' "

The primary use of real-time surveys is in Directional Drilling.

Monel is very rarely used in present day directional drilling collars.

The company expanded on this when it designed and manufactured the most powerful directional drilling rig to date in 1996.

For more information on the use of toolface measurements, see Directional Drilling.

They play a major part in directional drilling as it helps determine the well-bore path and angle.

Locating multiple wellheads within a single glory hole is made possible by the use of directional drilling.

Directional drilling beneath the Great Lakes is now banned.

If a large oil field were found, the oil could be developed using directional drilling technology, which requires very little use of land at the surface.

Data from the geomagnetic observatory is used by the offshore energy industry for precise positioning activities such as directional drilling.

In 1988, Michels began a new method known as horizontal directional drilling to construct underground utilities.

Its thickness and homogeneity does make it a common target for carrying out directional drilling manoeuvers.

Simultaneously, Baker Hughes sought to strengthen its directional drilling capabilities.

For Smith, the sale of the directional drilling unit will pare annual sales of $400 million by roughly 40 percent.

After three years, he returned to private practice where he represented several startup companies in the energy marketing, directional drilling, and other industries.

But directional drilling can take as long as 45 days per well, Mr. Qabndi said.

Using what they call directional drilling, they can sink wells miles from a platform, in much deeper water, without the cost of separate platforms.

Directional drilling is necessary to have the well completions, deep underground, spaced in an optimal manner, rather than clustered, as they are at the surface.

The directional drilling technique allows the path of the well to be directed to achieve contact with as many potentially producing features as possible.

However, modern directional drilling technologies allow for strongly deviated wells which can, given sufficient depth and with the proper tools, actually become horizontal.

Horizontal directional drilling is done with the help of a viscous fluid known as drilling fluid.

Layne's service offerings include both exploratory and directional drilling for major gold, copper and other base metal producers.

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Tensions between the two countries increased further in July 1990, after Iraq complained to Opec that Kuwait was stealing its oil from a field near the border by slant drilling of the Rumaila field.