Vladimir SUSHKO, Novinka Unitary Enterprise

 

The radial drilling technology was developed by the Rad Tech International Inc., an American company established by Henk Jelsma, its permanent head and the technology patent holder. First introduced in the New World, the radial drilling technology acquired wide recognition in the USA and Colombia and later on found its application in Canada, Bolivia, Argentina, Chile and the Middle East. The leader in the radial drilling services market is the Radial Drilling Services Inc. (RDS), international service company with its headquarters in Houston. This breakthrough technology first appeared in Russia in 2002. Its application was initiated by JSC Tatneft which has always been eager for innovations. The Novinka Unitary Enterprise (the FID Group) has created, produced and put through field tests a system for coiled tubing radial drilling. The unit comprises a semitrailer, a control cabin, a tubing spool assembly, a hydraulic drive for the tubing spool assembly, a guide arch, blowout preventing equipment, a pumping unit, a working tank, a control and recording system, a steering assembly, a window cutting assembly, an assembly for creation of filtration channel in the productive reservoir.