Wednesday, March 13, 2019

By Donna Stone


Direction drilling is a practice that has to be there for a very long time since the discovery of oil and water wells and took quite a period of time for people to realize that these bodies are not necessarily vertical. It is the practice of drilling non-vertical wells and this realization birthed the discovery of directional drilling reamers which made the tiresome, mostly underground work much easier. Please read the article below to get more information on directional boring.

Using these drills has not only made the work easier and efficient but it also has a lot of other benefits that make this practice favourable to many. Drilling of these wells stopped being vertical and started being directionally drilled for several purposes and it is used to target gas and oil reservoir and the practice can be divided into four main groups.

An advantage that is all thanks to the use of boring reamers is the fact that more surface of the reservoir that is to be drilled is exposed especially since when professionally done and an accurate angle is employed then the driller not only covers a broad range but is also able to get the most out the area being drilled and at the same time can avoid evading others private spaces avoiding legal issues.

The use of reamers is especially an advantage to a driller attempting to penetrate a reservoir that is not vertically situated or is impossible to actually penetrate. This type of regions could maybe be a region that is situated in the middle of a town or even an area that is already populated, a reservoir under a water body or could be an area that is hard to drill or has a hard rock formation.

Drilling is a practice that automatically demands professional help as with it the reamers in use can be put to maximum use while still giving the best fruitful results. This will also help in groping wellheads together hence reducing costs and impacts these activities have on the environment. With more wellheads being grouped then costs of production at the wells automatically drop.

It is now a known fact that directional boring occurs as much as vertical one does and with this known, along with the undersides of a reservoir boring also happens and this ensures that multiple productions occur. This is so because the points with high stratigraphic will be the main points of interest to a driller who knows what they are doing.

Although the practice has numerous benefits most of them being economic it also does have a fair share of disadvantages like it is not always the environment remains unharmed. Another common issue is boring will often result in stealing of oil and this can even cause conflict among nations, and in worse scenarios, countries might even go to war with each other.

It is hence advised to take precautionary measures when mining and boring as accidents are prone to happen as well as spillages. The environment also ought to be protected whenever boring is happening. New technologies have also made the practice easier and bearable.




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