New Drilling Technology Helps TNK-BP to Cut Cost of 15 Horizontal Wells at Uvat by $19.2 Million
“TNK-Uvat” (a member of the TNK-BP group of companies) is to cut the cost of drilling 15 horizontal wells at the Ust-Tegusskoe field by $19.2 million by deploying a new drilling technology. The new technique, known as mini-pilot hole horizontal well drilling, eliminates the labour-intensive procedure of “truncation” and drilling …