Directional Drilling in Oil & Gas Absolute Guide
Oil & Gas Directional drilling is the science of directing a wellbore along a predetermined well trajectory to intersect a designated sub-surface target. From its early beginnings in the 1920s, when many regarded it as a "black art", oilfield directional drilling evolved to the point where we can genuinely regard it as a science, although not always an exact science.
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