Directional Surveys Offer Potential for Greater Drilling Profits
Achieving a quality wellbore with the least amount of cost and in the shortest possible time is next to impossible without availing of directional surveying services from a competent provider. In Texas, one such company providing directional survey services and survey equipment rental is Vaughn Energy Services. Vaughn Energy is capable of down hole services while the well remains in production so there is no down time wasted in killing the well. As experienced well operators the risks of killing a well or halting production know comes with risks. What this same group may not know is that these risks can be minimized and often absolutely avoided by way of wireline services. These services are based on new technologies utilizing the latest software. Let us take a look at how far oil and gas exploration has come since the early days of drilling.
Oil exploration has been part of American culture for over a hundred years, and beginning in the early 1940’s well operators began actively measuring the point depth, or the measured depth, the magnetic angle at the point of drilling in down holes. This data is critical in determining the accuracy of the path of the well. This lends to better managing of the well overall. Other significant factors can also affect the drilling such as location, land formation, and especially the equipment.
Earlier methods of directional surveying made use of techniques like single-shot photographic technology with which a single photo was taken of the compass and was intended to read direction of drift and the degrees of the down hole vertically. This data was logged and evaluated to see how far the drift had wandered. Since then, however, technologies have been refined and some even replaced.
New gyro technologies offer features that greatly exceed the accuracy of the early methods and provide additional benefits and extras. Additional features like the ability to view the representation of the hole in 3-D, as well as, identify specific factors that can affect the drilling process are easy to denote. With the development of MWD(Measurement While Drilling) and LWD(Logging While Drilling) tools, it’s even possible for the directional information to be sent to the surface station while the drilling is on-going. This is known as wireline services in drilling.
The directional survey provides well operators the capability of properly planning the project and managing it without killing the well for maintenance. With directional surveying data estimates can readily provide insight into potential drilling solutions, type of equipment and possible hazards and issues that may arise. By way of this directional surveying data logging a sort of pro-active stance can be taken and thus heading off any hazards in the future operation. This is where wireline services and other technologies offer the most insight and potential for savings overall. Wireline services can readily correct specs without disrupting the operational capacity of the oil well. The directional survey data also provides the team critical information useful in monitoring the performance of the drilling project and especially after the well is in operational status. The data even helps to pinpoint precise estimates of potential profits.
While directional surveying services still have a margin for error, the more accurate and reliable the survey is, the greater the error reduction of the measurement. Companies now use advanced tools and equipment to provide clients with the most comprehensive, precise and optimal data available in oil and gas exploration industry in order to plan and manage drilling operations. The old style explorations demanded the well be taken out of production. However, new technologies allow for the maintenance and measurements to be conducted while continuing in operational status thanks to wireline services.
Vaughn Energy Services offers Tools for Oil Gas Directional Drilling Surveying. Directional Surveying. Wireline Services. Rental Tools. Products to meet the unique demands of the wellbore survey and drilling environments. Contact Vaughn Energy Services at (800) 606-4976 for services and rental rates.
