Help, I’m Having Development Issues in Sand, Gravel with Mud Rotary
Obviously, when you install a well, you want it to produce. But development issues happen to the best drilling contractors. On this Ask Brock, episode 122, host and drill trainer Brock Yordy gives tips on troubleshooting development.
“The best thing that we can do,” he says, “is minimize impact by having a low-solids drilling fluid. It’s often why we see specifications on large wells when they’re going to drill that production zone, it’s drilled on reverse — minimal impact, a negative pressure, cuttings coming up the hole.”