Technologies,Methods Reflect Industry Quest To Reduce Drilling Footprint

摘要

Operators, service contractors, equipment manufacturers, and major university and research laboratories are teaming to devise innovative methods to reduce the environmental footprint of onshore drilling, completion and production operations. Examples include drilling multiple horizontal or directional wells from a single pad using smaller and lighter rigs, well site and road construction using low-impact technologies, small-hole coiled tubing drilling, "green" completions in shale gas plays, centralized hydraulic fracturing locations, and recycling flow-back water from large frac jobs.