Scientific Drilling designs, develops, manufactures, and operates a comprehensive suite of wellbore placement tools and technologies, primarily related to the directional drilling and gyro survey

With 44 global locations and operations in 26 countries, Scientific Drilling provides its diverse, blue-chip customer base with technologies and services for some of the most complex, conventional, and unconventional onshore oil and gas wells in the world. Longorio states that the market is witnessing an increase in lateral lengths and complexity of completions. Besides focusing on drilling automation and achieving a better understanding of production zones, the market is also banking on pad drilling that requires precise spacing between wells to optimize production and coverage of the reservoir. In line with these trends, Scientific Drilling continues to invest in new technology developments— rotary steerable systems for delivering longer laterals, magnetic ranging for precise well spacing, and a new suite of LWD tools for unconventional reservoir evaluation—to meet the demands of the changing marketplace. While explaining the value proposition of Scientific Drilling for oil and gas well drilling, Longorio also recalls an instance when their team assisted a customer to drill a 1.9 km borehole for a pipeline to connect two oil and gas processing plants without ground disturbance and water contamination. Scientific Drilling developed its PunchOut Wireless HDD Navigation system as a completely wireless directional drilling assembly that allows for precise subsurface location and steering of the assembly at depths of up to 150 meters—an industry first for this nontraditional need. By using the PunchOut system the customer was able to drill an accurate wellbore with minimal surface footprint, reduced survey times, while eliminating the need for multiple runs to increase hole size.

As a complete directional drilling and wellbore positioning solutions provider, Scientific Drilling seeks to capture the full range of wellbore revenue opportunities by converting single-technology users into multi-technology users. “Our core vision is to become the ultimate partner in wellbore placement and productivity around the world,” concludes Longorio.