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Gapingfracture,

" Plenty of wells drilled with a lot shorter radius than that."

Absolutely. I have no particular 'neck of the woods', but was involved in a well like that some years ago for ENI, offshore Congo. A 're-entry/sideteck/redrill' with a short-radius buildup of 45 degrees per 90 ft. In other words, two 'stands to work with, and it was straight from vertical! Shallow, with a 3-metre 'target' to hit. Miss that exact target and we were either in water or nothingness. Took two attempts to get it right. All sorts of hydraulically-activated 'knuckle-joints' in the assembly, the DD hadn't used them before, nor had I worked before on such a thing. So it was a very steep learning-curve for everyone. Even they guys in town weren't really sure if it could be done. But we did do it. Fun. But not much sleep. The well being re-entered was the source of a blowout some years previously. The platform survived, but three men had been killed. So it was all rather strange.

Wellwell, I wish you a happy bbq with your family, that the children apprecite the toi you've put in, and so on. And I mean that sincerely. Sometimes I'm envious of people who lead such lives. But I don't, and it's obvious that our 'lifestyles' are completely different. And there's utterly no way I'd presume to say that one was 'better' than the other. I hope you have an enjoyable evening, and sleep well afterwards. I intend the same, but in a different sort of way, obviously! Hoping for RNS tomorrow, but won't be getting up early to read it.

Wellwell, Above 87 and you're 'approaching horizontal' in the buildup section close to the 'heel'. Not quite horizontal yet, but almost. And in fact, most DD's like to kick up to around 92 degrees for the last 90 ft or so before casing is run, because in the subsequent drillout of the shoe and undertaking the 'horizontal' the assembly will tend to 'drop' until the LWD and navigational tools are away from the vasing's mgnetic interference. Sure, during those first tens of feet the signal will be sent in 'gravity mode', but that's not so accurate. And once drilling the horizontal, especially wit'rotary steerable' assemblies, angle might not remain exactly 90 dehrees, but remains considered horizontal. Ther will be a maximum 'dogleg angle' predetermined. Commonly about 4.5 degrees/100ft. Outside that, and maybe time to change something. These are verifiable facts. I'm in a café on my phone, so can't send a link. But there's probably something on youtube explaining such things. Educate yourself before spouting nonsense. I might be too old to have the remotest hope of snagging Clara, but not too old to learn something new every day.

I'm sitting on a local café terrace with a beer. Again. And decided to settle this 'angle' thing once and for all, by asking Clara. Clara is the pretty, petite young mid-twenties waitress with a lovely smile and a seductively husky voice. Everyone (myself included) is desperately in love with her. I'm one of those priviledged enough to be of 'kiss on the cheek' terms. So I asked Clara (without explaining the context) whether she thought anything less than 45 degrees was vertical, or more than 45 (but not achieving 90 degrees), 'horizontal'. And she shook her head and with a big grin said "Absolument pas!". I rest my case.

Wellwell, Yes, and I will continue to scoff at your absurd and utterly incorrect assertion that a 27 degree hole is considered by the industry as 'vertical'. That's simly not true. Oh, and by the way, Halifax reached 17 degrees. I'm not sure if that was deliberate or not. A well planned to be 'straight' (or vertical') can reach such angles in hard-rock crooked-hole country without beeing planned for. But get over 20 degrees and you're talking deliberate 'deviated hole' except in exceptional circumstances. Similarly, over 45 degrees remains deviated hole. Above 87 or so, and you can start talking 'horizontal', and that includes 100 degrees! Sorry, but these are facts. You diminish your 'oilfield credibility' by posting the nonsense you did earlier on.

Fred_Bloggs (does he?)

" No flare noticed from the ToL, it's not necessarily a bad sign then?"

You might have noticed that's the hot topic of conversation this weekend! Ignore the Mad Hatter who reckons anything more than 45 degrees equals horizontal. Just noise. But the jury's very much out until an RNS arrives, hopefully first thing tomorrow.

My personal feeling is that lack of a flare is not good, but not necessarily bad. Lack of hard information. And there again, depending on what the RNS says, the bottom line will be how the market interprets it. Because let's face it, a large proportion of the 'market' know as much about oilwells as I know about lacemaking. And I couldn't make a presentable table-doily if you paid me to.

Only one thing I'm 120% sure of, and I don't mind telling it to others as a hard fact, is that an oilwell with a 44 degree angle is NOT considered 'vertical'!

Someone shove that dormouse into the teapot, please.

"90 deg is horizontal. >45 is horizontal <45 is vertical."

Balls.

"27deg is pretty vertical." (quoth wellwell)

Jeez. I give up.

Robbie,

"Have I missed any?"

Yes. 201/21Aa-7z (now producing!)

And (I might be mistaken, will have to go check), 'four' was a sort of dual-sidetrack!

What fun.

extrader,

"I'm a great believer in Occam's razor : the principle that the simplest explanation is usually the most likely/best. My take is that HUR has proved up enough at WD to satisfy its immediate strategic requirements; it has run into some technical issues that would cost time/money to resolve..."

Bravo. Agree. I'm not the sole voice crying in the wilderness.

SotB,

"ADUK::; Ha ha is this an appraisal well ?"

No. WD was (in 'regulation-speak') 'exploration', with all the regulatory restaraints adherant.
"Color me your color, baby" Haven't a clue what you mean.
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"Color me your color, darling"
Never thought you were that way inclined, SotB. please go away.
"I know who you are"
No you don't.
"Come up off your color chart"
What's a colour chart?
"I know where you're comin' from"
I don't think you do. Otherwise you might want to dron yourself in the river, immediately.
"Call me (call me) on the line"
Won't.
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Idem
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You queer, au what?
"You can call me any day or night"

I'vz got better things to do with my time.

"Call me"

NO

SotB,

"Lena Martell"

More interested in Edouard-Alfred Martel myself...

Alexios,

Wow. You're a 'dark horse, aren't you?

"How many wells has Hurricane drilled since 2004? 9 if to include Warwick Deep one just drilled."

I make it 10, but may be wrong! I'll now have to waste some beer-drinking time in the sunshine going to check up on this! Rats.

But nevertheless, it all goes to show that Hurricane isn't some ****-ant company doing things on a wing and a prayer. Drilling WoS doesn't come cheap, and requires a certain amount of balls (apologies to ladies present!)

Who dares wins.

SotB,

"Wellwell : there you go a confession !"

Might make a poker-player out of you yet, son.

Well called Wellwell's bluff.

Wellwell,

"Halifax was a vertical well "
No it wasn't. It was deviated to (I believe) 27 degrees.

Wellwell,

"Halifax was a vertical well that didn’t intersect multiple horizontal zones or fractures and could have been drilling through gneiss only. "

I'm afraid you're losing credibility on a daily basis. Maybe you should tell your friend RB that what little he's paying you ain't worth it.

Take some time out to re-read the reports on Halifax.

It's classified as a 'discovery', with an 'oil-down-tp' (much as I personally hate that expression), and so on.

But yet you're constantly 'negative'.

Give it up. Whatever bull your being paid to promote ain't worth the candle. You'd sleep better.

AK

Wellwell,

"I’m not a Corbyn or labour supporter but the very fact that factless story made it to press concerns me greatly."

It amused me enormously, because I happen to believe it to be true. But I'll leave it up to you guys and gals to decide. I haven't 'voted' for anyone political since I was 21,(a very long time ago) and have no intention of ever doing so again. Free of that bulsh*t.

Wulbert,

(I've got knocked out of my habitual online poker tounament befor the pay, so am back here!)

"When people talk of "the reservoir got damaged" do they mean just the part where the drill entered the reservoir? Surely the whole reservoir would not be "damaged" or compromised by an area of collapsed rock & mud (or whatever) around the penetration point of the drill? "

People don't talk about 'the reservoir got damaged'. The technical phrase is 'formation-damage'. I mentioned the possibility of this when the Halifax story started getting long, but with no RNS, and was pilloried by a number of people for having used such a term. But was subsequently vindicated, when the company used it themselves.

(I'd like to say here that it was pure intuition on my part, with a lot less 'networking' and availability of rumours.)

'Formation damage' generally applies to 'near-wellbore'. It does not apply to the reservoir as a whole. It's important to understand this. Halifax was not a 'dud'. Far from it. However various regulatory constraints due to its 'exploration' staus, especially regarding drilling-fluid ('mud') densities, immediately limited the chances of successful DST due to 'clogging' of the fracture matrix by fines, and possible chemical interactions with minerals interspersed within the rock.

This is 'near-wellbore'.

The wellbore at that depth is only 8-1/2 inches diameter. And never think about oilwell drilling as being intersecting some sort of underground cavern like Carlsbad Caves, filled with oil. It ain't.

Think instead about drilling a hole in your wall (for whatever reason), with your Black and Decker, and maybe the thing getting stuck because you haven't 'reamed it' a bit, or whatever.

Really, the principle is the same. But a bit more complicated. I really loved the analogy someone posted a couple of days ago about directional drilling being like decorating the bedroom from outside in the street, and through the letterbox. But it's a tad more difficult than that. And this is where Wellwell's 'no oil ' argument falls flat on its face. Because while drilling the horizontal, they were using sophisticated (read rocket-science to make things simple) LWD in tandem with the navigation tools. (LWD=Logging-While Drilling.)

They know what they've got, they're not wasting time, but moving on. Can't wait for the RNS.

Wellwell,

" I was pointing out that td takes as long as it takes regardless of what's 'discovered'."

Yes, quite true. But if you've got no good shows', you do a TLC logging run and it shows up 'bad', you cut your losses and get out of Dodge. as fast as possible. You don't set up a DST, end up with a fishing job on the first run, sort that out, and go for another...

There's something down ther, I feel convinced of it. Maybe not the best Hurricane's drilled, but if it adds to 2C, that's good enough.

Now a question to tax SotB's mind while he's at the pub. How many wells has Hurricane drilled since 2004? That'll be a good game for tomorrow... I'm off to join my regular late-night online poker game, my car being a bit poorly at present, awaiting a part (crankshaft vibration-dampening pulley) so not at the casino for the live game.

SotB,

"aduk, so “Hurricane has used CT on all its DST's”. Has it ? Are you stating that as a verifiable fact ?"

No. In fact a quick retraction. In all its more RECENT DST's. In earlier ones (like Lanc 4) CT was brought in later. (I think. 'Cos it may have already been onboard.)

However, you're the one who mentioned the idea of 'bluff'. CT has been used on all the recent wells, and they are the significant ones. Call me.