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Horizontal Drilling in Kansas
History of Horizontal Drilling
- 1891 - First Patent Issued
- 1929 - First Horizontal Oil Well Drilled
- 1950’s - Development of Hydraulic Fracturing suppressed need for Horizontal Wells
- 1970’s – used long radius technology to develop fields
w/o navigational technology
- 1980’s – Advances in Directional Technology to Steer Offshore Wells
- 1985 – First Austin Chalk Well
- 1990 – approx. 1,500 Horizontal Wells Worldwide
- 2000 – Est. 20,000 Horizontal Wells Worldwide