Directional Drilling
Deviated and horizontal wellbores drilled to plan, with the mud motors, MWD tool and complete bottom hole assembly supplied and run by Geo Mag.
Directional drilling steers a wellbore along a planned path to a target that is not directly beneath the rig, rather than drilling straight down. Geo Mag Technologies supplies the tools this requires and the technical support to keep the well on plan while it is drilled.
Systems used
- Bico and Tomahawk mud motors
- RSS
- Key Drill drilling systems
- Complete bottom hole assembly (BHA) packages
Directional drilling
Kick off.Build angle.Hold the lateral.
Mud motors and the complete bottom hole assembly, steered on surveys from company-owned MWD tools.
Land drilling rig in open country · editorial stock photograph
The instruments behind the trajectory
Directional work is only as good as the surveys that steer it.
Positive-pulse MWD tool
Directional, gamma and resistivity configurations
The MWD tool is the instrument that tells the directional driller where the bit is and where it is heading. Survey and tool-face data come up the mud column as pressure pulses, so the trajectory can be corrected while drilling instead of after a trip.
Rime slick-hd servo pulser
Mud-pulse telemetry in high-solids and high-LCM environments
The pulser is the valve that writes downhole data into the mud column. Lost-circulation material, high solids, heat and pressure are what break pulsers; a valve that keeps clearing itself is what keeps the surveys coming.
KeyDrill KDU-Mini decoding unit
Mud-pulse decoding at the rig floor
Every survey depends on the surface receiver separating a small pressure pulse from pump noise. Deeper wells and PDC bits distort the signal; the lower the pulse a decoder can resolve, the more of the well it can survey reliably.
SourceSystem roles and explanations from the Technology page; specifications and Geo Mag statements are attributed there.
Directional drilling by region
Regional pages for the basins Geo Mag is available to work in, from its base in Broussard, Louisiana.
Texas
- Midland, TXMidland Basin
- Odessa, TXCentral Basin Platform and Midland Basin
- Pleasanton, TXEagle Ford Shale
- Cotulla, TXEagle Ford Shale
- Nacogdoches, TXEast Texas (Haynesville and Bossier) · Documented wells
New Mexico
- Hobbs, NMDelaware Basin and Central Basin Platform
- Carlsbad, NMDelaware Basin
- Farmington, NMSan Juan Basin
Louisiana
- Shreveport, LAHaynesville Shale · Documented wells
Oklahoma
- Oklahoma City, OKAnadarko Basin (SCOOP and STACK)
- Elk City, OKWestern Anadarko Basin
North Dakota
- Williston, NDWilliston Basin (Bakken and Three Forks) · Documented wells
- Dickinson, NDWilliston Basin (southern Bakken) · Documented wells
Wyoming
- Gillette, WYPowder River Basin · Documented wells
- Douglas, WYPowder River Basin · Documented wells
Colorado
- Greeley, CODenver-Julesburg Basin
- Rifle, COPiceance Basin
Utah
- Vernal, UTUinta Basin
West Virginia
- Morgantown, WVAppalachian Basin (Marcellus and Utica)
Pennsylvania
- Sayre, PAAppalachian Basin (north-east Marcellus)
Every page above sits under the Directional Drilling service. Geo Mag is based in Broussard, Louisiana; these are regions it is available to work in, not offices.
Other services
Each service can stand alone or run together on the same well.
MWD/LWD Services
Directional, gamma and resistivity configurations / PWD and wave propagation resistivity in the string / Tolteq & Rime MWD/LWD tools / Eclipse Touch & Keydrill surface systems / Polaris Gamma logging software
Mud-pulse MWD with gamma, resistivity and pressure-while-drilling on a company-owned tool fleet, decoded at the rig and delivered by WITS and WITSML.
Details
Well Planning & Technical Consulting
Pre-drill trajectory design and technical consulting, with geosteering support from real-time resistivity once the bit is in the ground.
Details
Need Directional Drilling?
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