By: Kyle Carlton, PG, Senior Geologist
When compared to a vertical well installation, a successful horizontal well installation is typically a more specialized and complicated process. Significant risks are often associated with installation of horizontal wells; however, those risks can be mitigated by selecting Directional Technologies as your experienced environmental horizontal directional drilling partner.
Directional Technologies is not your typical drilling company. We are a professional team of like-minded engineers and scientists here to help you solve site specific challenges. We are a partner to your team by providing horizontal well layouts and engineered well screen with our proprietary well screen design software.
Our 25 years of environmental experience provides us with unmatched comprehension of the important components of horizontal remediation projects which are key for successful horizontal well installations.
Key Components
If you have never utilized horizontal wells or are relatively new to the technology, consider these crucial details required for a successful horizontal well:
| Key Components of a Successful Horizontal Well: | Directional Technologies Provides: |
| Pre-planning the Horizontal Well Layout | Experience derived from hundreds of site layouts during the design phase. We understand site specific challenges and how to minimize business disruption at a busy site. Our experience and insight will help determine the most effective and efficient horizontal well layout possible for the site and target treatment area. |
| Proper Horizontal Well Screen Design | State-of-the-art software to design and engineer horizontal well screen for the remedial application and site specific lithological and hydrogeological characteristics. Our horizontal well screens are machine cut to the specifications produced by the software. |
| Accurate Horizontal Well Placement | Precise placement of horizontal wells at the correct target locations and depths. We understand that a horizontal well installed slightly off-target significantly affects performance. Our reputation depends on the accuracy of horizontal well placement; therefore, we precisely follow the predetermined horizontal well layout with advanced drill bit tracking systems to ensure installation at target locations. |
| Correct Well Construction, Grouting, and Completion | Experience derived from the construction of over one thousand horizontal wells for the environmental industry. We understand and execute proper construction of horizontal wells to maximize the remedial performance of the well. |
| Sufficient Well Development | Rigorous horizontal well development with our propriety development method to ensure the borehole and horizontal well are conditioned for premium remedial performance. A horizontal well can be perfectly placed and constructed, but if not properly developed the well will fail. |
Reduce Risk
Recently, one of our clients relayed to us a rather unscientific plan for horizontal soil vapor extraction well screen design. The contractor was going to hand drill holes in utility pipe to provide the well screen. This high-risk approach extremely diminishes the likelihood of success of the horizontal well.
If you are not a horizontal well expert, do you want to take a chance with your client that the horizontal well will fail due improper design and installation?
Hire the Professionals
Our team members are 40-hr OSHA HAZWOPER certified, professional, and highly experienced in the environmental industry. Let our like-minded engineers and scientists help design and install your horizontal wells to successfully execute your next remediation project.
Since 1992, Directional Technologies has installed thousands of horizontal wells at hundreds of environmental sites. We successfully design and construct horizontal remediation wells to help bring you and your clients’ sites to closure.