Directional Drilling in Midland, Texas
Mud motors, company-owned MWD tools and complete bottom hole assemblies for horizontal programs in the Midland Basin.
Geo Mag Technologies supplies directional drilling services to operators and drilling contractors working in Midland, Texas and across the Midland Basin side of the Permian. The company provides the mud motors, MWD tool and complete bottom hole assembly needed to drill a deviated well, together with the technical support to keep the wellbore on plan while it is drilled.
Midland is a business center for the Permian Basin, and the drilling programs run from here are dominated by long horizontal laterals landed in stacked pay. Geo Mag mobilizes tools and personnel to Midland County and the surrounding counties from its base in Broussard, Louisiana.
- Region
- Midland Basin
- County
- Midland County, Texas
- Coverage
- Available for projects anywhere in the United States
- Mobilizes from
- Broussard, Louisiana
- Availability
- 24 Hours
At a glance
Supporting horizontal programs across the Midland Basin
The Midland Basin is the eastern sub-basin of the Permian. Modern development targets the Spraberry and Wolfcamp intervals, typically as horizontal wells drilled from multi-well pads with laterals that routinely run one to two miles. Several benches are often developed from the same pad, so a directional program here is as much about landing precisely in a thin target and staying in zone as it is about building angle.
For a directional service provider that means a survey program the driller can trust, a mud motor and BHA matched to the section being drilled, and real-time formation data on the lateral. The tool string Geo Mag runs can be configured with gamma, resistivity and PWD in the field, so the same equipment can drill the vertical and curve and then geosteer the lateral.
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.
Directional drilling capabilities relevant to Midland
Geo Mag runs Bico and Tomahawk mud motors, RSS, Key Drill drilling systems and complete BHA packages. Its company-owned positive-pulse MWD tools carry gamma, and the wave propagation resistivity sub allows geosteering in both water-based and oil-based mud, which matters on long Wolfcamp and Spraberry laterals where the lateral needs to stay in a thin bench.
The pressure-while-drilling tool runs in the same string and gives real-time equivalent circulating density, a measurement that becomes more useful the longer the lateral gets. Surveys and logs are decoded by KeyDrill surface systems, logged in Polaris, and shared with the rig WITS system and the operator WITSML server so an office in Midland can follow the well remotely.
Drilling systems: Bico and Tomahawk mud motors / RSS / Key Drill drilling systems / Complete bottom hole assembly (BHA) packages.
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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 Midland
Geo Mag is available for directional drilling projects throughout Midland County and the Midland Basin counties around it, including work staged from:
- Odessa
- Big Spring
- Stanton
- Garden City
- Andrews
- Rankin
- Martin County
- Glasscock County
- Howard County
- Reagan County
- Upton County
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 Midland
Yes. Geo Mag Technologies is available for directional drilling, MWD/LWD and well planning work anywhere in the United States, including Midland and the Midland Basin. Tools and personnel mobilize from the company's base in Broussard, Louisiana.
Discuss a Midland drilling project.
Call or text (337) 278-4607, 24 hours. Or send a message through the contact form.