Directional Drilling in Morgantown, West Virginia
Directional drilling, MWD/LWD and well planning for Marcellus and Utica horizontals in northern West Virginia and south-west Pennsylvania.
Geo Mag Technologies provides directional drilling services to operators in Morgantown, West Virginia and the northern West Virginia counties that make up the state's share of the Marcellus and Utica plays. Geo Mag supplies the mud motors, MWD tool and complete bottom hole assembly needed to drill a deviated well and plans the trajectory beforehand.
The company is based in Broussard, Louisiana and is available for projects anywhere in the United States. Travel distance is not a limiting factor.
- Region
- Appalachian Basin (Marcellus and Utica)
- County
- Monongalia County, West Virginia
- Coverage
- Available for projects anywhere in the United States
- Mobilizes from
- Broussard, Louisiana
- Availability
- 24 Hours
At a glance
Marcellus and Utica drilling in northern West Virginia
Monongalia, Marion, Wetzel, Harrison and Doddridge counties, and Greene and Washington counties across the Pennsylvania line, account for much of West Virginia's Marcellus production. The deeper Utica and Point Pleasant are developed beneath it in the western part of the region. Laterals in Appalachia have grown steadily and now commonly exceed two miles, drilled from pads set into ridge tops and hollows.
The terrain and the geology both push work into the directional plan: surface locations are scarce, so trajectories reach a long way, and the target intervals are thin. Lost-circulation material is a routine part of the fluid program in parts of the basin, which is hard on mud-pulse telemetry.
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 Appalachian laterals
The Rime slick-hd pulser Geo Mag runs uses a rotary shear valve designed for high-solids and high-LCM environments, which its manufacturer rates to 175 C and 20,000 psi. Geo Mag's company-owned positive-pulse MWD tools carry gamma and can carry wave propagation resistivity for geosteering a long lateral in water-based or oil-based mud.
Geo Mag provides pre-drill trajectory design that accounts for the target and offset wells, and drills with Bico and Tomahawk mud motors, RSS, Key Drill drilling systems and complete BHA packages. Polaris logs the data and pushes it to the operator WITSML server for remote monitoring from Pittsburgh, Canonsburg or Charleston.
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.
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.
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 Morgantown
Geo Mag is available for directional drilling projects across northern West Virginia and south-west Pennsylvania, including work staged from:
- Fairmont
- Clarksburg
- New Martinsville
- Wheeling
- Marion County
- Wetzel County
- Harrison County
- Doddridge County
- Waynesburg, PA
- Uniontown, PA
- Greene County, PA
- Washington County, PA
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 Morgantown
Yes. The Appalachian Basin is within Geo Mag's nationwide coverage. Tools and personnel mobilize from Broussard, Louisiana.
Discuss a Morgantown drilling project.
Call or text (337) 278-4607, 24 hours. Or send a message through the contact form.