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SpecialReport: Drilling Technology
tools to determine where and how to drill
one-run Eagle Ford wells in Karnes and
DeWitt counties. After isolating the areas
in which one-runs should be attempted
and following prescribed parameters, the
one-run success rate more than tripled,
saving a substantial amount of time and
money across the drilling operation.
Running one BHA from surface casing
to TD provides a low-risk, high-reward
design option, since a failed one-run attempt requires a BHA trip at or near the
kickoff point before drilling the curve
and lateral, which is almost identical to a
two-BHA design.
Predictions based on BHA, parameters,
location and well length enable a high
success rate. Based on this study, using
these recommendations leads to a 91 percent accuracy rate in predicting one-run
success. Similar methods should be followed to determine precise recommendations for one-run success in other geographic areas.
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LUKE S.
WALKER

Luke S. Walker is a drilling engineer
at BHP Billiton. With seven years of
horizontal drilling experience in the
Eagle Ford, Fayetteville, Marcellus,
Brown Dense and other shale plays, he
joined the company in 2013 after serving
four years as a drilling optimization
engineer at Southwestern Energy. Prior
to joining the energy industry, he served
in the U.S. Army as an aviation officer
flying the UH-60 Blackhawk deployed
to Operation Iraqi Freedom. He holds
a B.S. in systems engineering from the
U.S. Military Academy at West Point
and an M.B.A. from the University of
Arkansas at Fayetteville.

KATHRYN J.
PATTON

Kathryn J. Patton is a senior application
engineer at Halliburton Drill Bits & Services (HDBS) in Houston, where her duties
include application recommendations,
post-well performance evaluations, drill
bit/BHA simulation, optimization, and
proposal development for the Permian
Basin region. Previously, she served on
behalf of HDBS as an in-house application
engineer for South Texas at BHP Billiton.
She began her career at Black Elk Energy
LLC as a petroleum engineer responsible
for operated and nonoperated Shelf properties in the Western Gulf of Mexico.
Patton holds a B.S. in petroleum engineering from Marietta College.

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