NAPA

80

Sebastopol

SACRAMENTO SOLANO

ALPINE AMADOR CALAVERAS

Hawthorne
395

Petaluma
MARIN

Galt
5

680

Lodi
SAN JOAQUIN

Arnold Angels Sonora

TUOLUMNE

MINERAL

NYE

Case History
6

CONTRA COSTA

TruTrak Lowered Well Development Costs

Manteca
MONO ESMERALDA

ALAMEDA

Ceres Drilling service saves tubing wear and tear

SANTA CLARA

580

STANISLAUS

MARIPOSA

Mammoth Lakes

SAN MATEO SANTA

Newman

Morgan Hill
CRUZ

Santa Cruz

Benefits
Reduced

well development costs Gonzales

Marina Monterey

Gilroy Watsonville Hollister

SAN BENITO

0 Los Banos 200

MERCED

Atwater Merced

Bishop
MADERA FRESNO
395

Chowchilla

Dos Palos

Madera

400

INYO

95

Nonrotational

Depth [ft]

Soledad drilling system Greenfield reduced inclination

600

King City
101

Huron
800

TULARE

Background and challenges

Geothermal Andesitic Drilling

MONTEREY

Avenal
1,000

well, Eastern California

Cambria

KINGS

lava formation

project required a straight, Morro Bay vertical upper hole San Luis Obispo loss of circulation due to large formation fractures

Atascadero
SAN 1,400LUIS OBISPO

1,200

Lake Isabella

Ridgecrest

KERN

Potential

Arroyo Grande
1,600

Vandenberg AFB Baker Hughes solution and results

Santa Maria

0.0

0.5

1.0
SANTA

1.5

2.0

2.5

Mojave

Boron

Inclination [deg]

Barstow
15

SAN BERNARDINO
40

TruTrak

automated closed loop nonrotating steerable drilling system inclination from over 2 to less than 0.5 without creating doglegs

The TruTrak systemHills demonstrated high vertical control. Mission VENTURA Lompoc

BARBARA

Reduced

An independent power producer was drilling a geothermal well in the 101 mountains of Inyo County in Eastern California that tended to build inclination with rotary drilling. To successfully drill subsequent sections, a straight, vertical upper hole was necessary. Adding to the challenge of drilling production intervals was the potential loss of circulation when using standard water-based mud systems due to large formation fractures. While the standard practice of air drilling solves the mud loss problem, friction and drag increases. This high friction combined with a tortuous vertical upper borehole would increase casing wear and jeopardize the project. The customer had attempted to use a competitors

LOS ANGELES

Lancaster Palmdale

Wrightwood vertical drilling system but was unable Hesperia to overcome the rock strength and Big Bear formation-dip tendencies. Yucaipa

Victorville

Desert Hot Spring

To bring the project back on track, Palm Springs Indio ORANGE Desert Palm Baker Hughes deployed the TruTrak automated directional drilling system. RIVERSIDE Fallbrook Avalon Using a closed-loop, nonrotational drilling 5 Vista system was the key to delivering the project objectives. Encinitas
Solana Beach
15

Poway

SAN DIEGO

The TruTrak system reduced and maintained the inclination from over 2 to less than 0.5 throughout the whole interval, without Rosarito creating unwanted doglegs. Along with steering accuracy, the nonrotational aspects of the TruTrak system reduced wear on casing, drillpipe, and tubing, which saved well development costs.

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