COMPLEXITIES AT SALDA

US company starts directional drilling

US-based Halliburton, one of the world's largest oil field services companies, yesterday initiated directional drilling side-tracking at gas well-4 in Comilla’s Salda gas field. The drilling will continue for 16 days at Salda and for 11 days at well-1 in adjacent Mobarakpur gas field.
Halliburton has been brought in after the rigs of state-owned Bangladesh Petroleum Exploration and Production Company (BAPEX) got stuck while drilling two gas wells there.
The US company will charge around $1 million for the two jobs, a BAPEX official said.
Drilling work at Mobarakpur was stalled for ten months after a BAPEX rig tilted sideways on the drilling pad. The rig, Bijoy-12, was deployed to Mobarakpur-1 aiming to drill up to 4,700-metre. BAPEX suffered a similar mishap at Salda-4 site where it was aiming to drill up to 3,200-metre.
Talking to The Independent, BAPEX officials said Mobarakpur is an exploratory well, a new well.

COMPLEXITIES AT SALDA

US company starts directional drilling

US-based Halliburton, one of the worlds largest oil field services companies, yesterday initiated directional drilling side-tracking at gas well-4 in Comillas Salda gas field. The drilling will continue for 16 days at Salda and for 11 days at well-1 in adjacent Mobarakpur gas field. Halliburton has been brought in after the rigs of state-owned Bangladesh Petroleum Exploration and Production Company (BAPEX) got stuck while drilling two gas wells there. The US company will charge around $1 million for the two jobs, a BAPEX official said. Drilling work at Mobarakpur was stalled for ten months after a BAPEX rig tilted sideways on the drilling pad. The rig, Bijoy-12, was deployed to Mobarakpur-1 aiming to drill up to 4,700-metre. BAPEX suffered a similar mishap at Salda-4 site where it was aiming to drill up to 3,200-metre. Talking to The Independent, BAPEX officials said Mobarakpur is an exploratory well, a new well.