ESD (Emergency Shut Down Valve)

The management team is experienced in Underbalanced (Managed Pressured) Drilling to maximize wellbore stability and to enhance production capabilities. 

It is said in the chapter Conquerors of Inner Space concerning the “top ten technologies of the 20th century” from Hart Publication Supplement 100 of the Most Influential People of the Petroleum Century, pages 9-10: “except for a few early beginnings, this technology (horizontal drilling) is the new kid on the block, but it has made up for it in a big way.  Through this technique, a well’s productivity can be increased by a factor of 10 at only 1.5 times the cost.  A properly-placed horizontal borehole can drain an entire reservoir, where previously dozens of wells were required.” and, “This technology (underbalanced drilling) is like delicate brain surgery.  Properly done, it pays off huge rewards in drilling efficiency and production improvement.  Formations that were previously judged impossible to drill have fallen to this new technology.”

As an integral part of our strategic focus XNP combines horizontal technology that increases productivity of a well “by a factor of 10” with underbalanced drilling (managed pressure drilling) techniques that “pays off huge rewards in drilling efficiency and production improvement.”  XNP incorporates these technologies, when applicable, for recovering gas from unconventional resources such as coal-bed methane gas from coal seams and shale gas from formations such as the Barnett Shale, Haynesville, oil from the Bakken formation, Eagle Ford Shale, Niobrara formation, Buda Lime, and Woodford Shale.

Four phase Separation and Choke System.  Dual 5000 psi automated chokes

Operations Command Center

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South Texas well flowing oil and gas while UB drilling Buda Lime formation