A PAD DRILLING METHOD FOR DRILLING MULTIPLE WELLS AND A MULTI-WELL PAD SYSTEM EMPLOYING THE SAME

摘要

A well pad having a plurality of wells is described. The well pad hastwo parallel rows or linear arrays of well pairs, mirrored to each other inboth a W-Edirection and a S-N direction orthogonal to the W-E direction. Each row ofwell pairscomprises an inner row of injection wells and an outer row of productionwells. Aplurality of wellhead connection modules and a piping module are deployedbetween the two rows of well pairs. Each wellhead connection module isconnectedto one, two three or four well pairs. The piping module connects the wellheadconnection modules to a central processing facility.