Technology improvements slash drilling times in Horn River basin.

The article discusses how drilling productivity has improved in the Horn River basin in Canada following the application of technologies, such as a walking rig, rotary steerable system and performance benchmarking. It offers information on improvements that has been implemented which reduced drilling time three-fold, such as pad rig moving system, bigger drill pipe, rotary-steerable and managed-pressured drilling, as well as high-temperature motor elastomers.