Directional Drilling in Hobbs, New Mexico
Directional tools, MWD/LWD and well planning for Lea County wells on the New Mexico side of the Permian Basin.
Geo Mag Technologies offers directional drilling services to operators working around Hobbs, New Mexico. Lea County, together with Eddy County, is where New Mexico's Permian production is concentrated; it spans the eastern Delaware Basin, the Central Basin Platform and the Northwest Shelf, and Hobbs is where much of that activity is staged.
Geo Mag supplies the mud motors, MWD tool and complete bottom hole assembly needed to drill a deviated well, plus well planning and technical consulting. The company is based in Broussard, Louisiana and mobilizes anywhere in the United States.
- Region
- Delaware Basin and Central Basin Platform
- County
- Lea County, New Mexico
- Coverage
- Available for projects anywhere in the United States
- Mobilizes from
- Broussard, Louisiana
- Availability
- 24 Hours
At a glance
Drilling across Lea County
Lea County covers several distinct drilling environments in a single county. To the west, horizontal Bone Spring and Wolfcamp wells in the Delaware Basin are deep and often long. Across the Central Basin Platform and the Northwest Shelf, operators still drill directional and horizontal wells into carbonate reservoirs that have been produced for decades, which means dense offsets and careful anti-collision planning.
Much of the acreage in south-east New Mexico is state trust or federal land, so programs are frequently organized around pad locations and unit boundaries that the directional plan has to respect. A trajectory designed against the target and the offset wells before spud is the starting point for all of this.
SourceRegional geology and development patterns are general public information about the basin, not Geo Mag claims. Geo Mag statements and manufacturer figures are attributed on the Technology page.
Geo Mag capabilities for Hobbs-area wells
Geo Mag provides pre-drill trajectory design and technical consulting, then drills against that plan with Bico and Tomahawk mud motors, RSS, Key Drill drilling systems and complete BHA packages. The MWD tools are company-owned and configure in the field with gamma, resistivity and PWD.
On horizontal Delaware Basin wells the wave propagation resistivity sub supports geosteering in water-based or oil-based mud, and the pressure-while-drilling tool gives real-time ECD. Surveys and logs reach the rig WITS system and the operator WITSML server through the KeyDrill decoder and Polaris logging.
Drilling systems: Bico and Tomahawk mud motors / RSS / Key Drill drilling systems / Complete bottom hole assembly (BHA) packages.
Full directional drilling serviceAll systems and specifications
Systems relevant to this region
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.
PWD, annular pressure-while-drilling
Real-time downhole pressure and ECD
Annular pressure while drilling turns equivalent circulating density from a calculation into a measurement. It shows whether the hole is being cleaned, flags kicks and influxes early, and lets the overbalance be held tight without giving up rate of penetration.
Wave propagation resistivity (WPR) sub
Geosteering, correlation and wireline replacement
Propagation resistivity reads the formation around the bit in real time, so a lateral can be steered to stay in the target zone and casing points can be picked without waiting on a wireline run.
Polaris RDS logging system
Gamma and directional data logging with remote monitoring
The logging system is where surveys, gamma and drilling parameters become the well record: plots, LAS files and reports the operator keeps, and a live feed the office can watch without being on location.
SourceSystem roles from the Technology page; Geo Mag statements and manufacturer specifications are attributed there.
Areas served around Hobbs
Geo Mag is available for directional drilling projects across Lea County and the adjoining Permian counties on both sides of the state line, including:
- Lovington
- Eunice
- Jal
- Carlsbad
- Seminole, TX
- Denver City, TX
- Andrews, TX
- Eddy County
- Gaines County, TX
- Yoakum County, TX
Nearby service areas
SourceCoverage statement from the Geo Mag questionnaire: available anywhere in the United States; travel distance is not a limiting factor. Places listed are areas Geo Mag is available to work in, not offices or completed projects.
Directional drilling questions for Hobbs
Yes. Hobbs and the New Mexico Permian are within Geo Mag's nationwide coverage. Tools and personnel mobilize from Broussard, Louisiana.
Discuss a Hobbs drilling project.
Call or text (337) 278-4607, 24 hours. Or send a message through the contact form.