Prospects of modern MWD and LWD telesystems application in conditions of crisis phenomena in oil and gas industry of Russia
The article analyzes the upcoming trends of MWD and LWD telesystems application in the oil and gas industry of Russia. It is shown that the progress achieved in the field of modern drilling equipment and its equipping with modern MWD and LWD telesystems by the leading foreign service companies such as Schlumberger, Halliburton, Anadrill, Baker Hughes, etc., has allowed them to 2,5…3,0 times reduce construction cost of complicatedly profiled wells. The prospects of using domestic MWD and LWD technologies at the Russian oil fields located in the water areas with warm and moderate climate are shown. One of the effective ways to reduce the cost of service, which is widely tested by the experience of foreign firms, is replacement of wells’ cable geophysical survey by geophysical survey while wells drilling.