The unconventional boom that has swept across North America over the past decade has made an indel ible mark on the oil and gas industry, ushering in a wave of new tools and methodologies to expand the operational envelope. The sector has also opened the door for new applications of com monly used offshore techniques, among them rotary steerable systems (RSS). Long deployed in offshore and high-value directionally drilled wells, RSS are becoming more widely used to drill unconventional shale wells that are tar geting increasingly high build-up rates (BUR) and longer laterals.
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