Case Study
HG Energy II Appalachia and BHGE partnered to achieve world record drilling in NE US
HG Energy II Appalachia and BHGE partnered to achieve world record drilling in NE US Challenges ? Reduce overall drilling days and costs ? Create smoother wellbores and simplify casing runs ? Stay in target zone ? Accelerate the customer’s learning curve in the region Results ? Integrated drilling system drilled a world record 9,055 ft in 24 hours ? Stayed in the target zone through 100% of the lateral ? Saved 1.86 days drilling the curve and lateral ? Reduced drilling costs approximately 35% Baker Hughes, a GE company (BHGE), has been consistently drilling “mile-a-day” wells in the Marcellus and Utica shale plays. From 2015 to the end of August 2018, BHGE has drilled more than 200 wells in the Northeast US where the footage drilled exceeded a m