Horses & Zebras: Right Sizing Technology for the Oilfield
A major new East Siberian oilfield development program with a multi-rig/multi-lateral drilling program was well underway, when an increasingly difficult fluid loss issue began to evolve within the principal pay-zone. The combination of multiple-rigs (> 10), with multi-laterals longer than 6,000m in the pay-zone in each well, with a large …