Horizontal Wells and Gas Shales

Oil & Natural Gas / Gas Shales / Development Technology, Hydrofracking

This post is one of a series of tech talks given in 2009, describing some of the ways in which fossil fuels are produced. In the current part of the series we are focusing a little more on the procedures that are being used to recover natural gas from formations such as the Barnett, Fayetteville, Marcellus, Haynesville and Woodford shales.

In this particular post we concentrate more on the benefits of horizontal drilling through these shale reservoirs, rather than using the more conventional vertical wells that were used historically. This, and the next three posts in the series, are likely to be a bit more technically dense than earlier posts, but illustrates some of the problems of production, and some of the gains that technology is bringing to help solve some of them.

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