Advances in Logging While Drilling (LWD) Technology
Samir Zarrad, Schlumberger
The Directional drilling and Logging while drilling business is today one of the
fastest growing and changing business in the oil industry. This is obviously
driven by the exploding number of Directional and
Horizontal
wells drilled. The
number of
Horizontal
wells drilled in the US Land tripled in the last 3 years
while the total number of wells is far from that rate.
Then the questions are why people are switching to
horizontal
drilling? What
makes a
Horizontal
well
successful from a reservoir and Formation evaluation
perspective? What kind of techniques and technologies are put in place? Where is
the industry heading?