Recently NuVista Energy Ltd. completed the deepest well and longest lateral section ever drilled in Western Canada. In the April 25, 2018 edition of the Daily Oil Bulletin, Mark Thorne, Drilling Superintendent at NuVista, released a statement attributing much of their success to Pacesetter’s Orbit™ Rotary Steerable System among other service providers.
“Unlike conventional, directional drilling, where you have to slide, rotary steering allows you to steer the well in any direction, while rotating the entire time. By doing that, you get a smoother wellbore, a smoother wellbore means less torque, and less torque means you can reach further. Also, having a smoother wellbore helps us get our completion systems in the ground.”
Pacesetter’s modified Orbit RSS breaks records in the Pembina field Using Pacesetter’s combined technologies of XPACE EM MWD and our modified PowerDrive Orbit RSS, one Operator drilled 3 record wells in the Pembina field. The vertical and build sections on the final 2 wells were drilled while continuing on into the lateral reaching TD in […]
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Aspenleaf Energy drills deepest MD Swan Hills well Congratulations to Aspenleaf Energy Limited together with the rig and crew of Ensign 32 on this achievement. Pacesetter’s combined technologies, paired with an Impulse “Hex Drive” motor and triple “Actipulse” friction reduction tools, drilled a tortuous and challenging well plan in the Swan Hills formation to a […]
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