Directional Drilling in Carlsbad, New Mexico
Directional drilling, MWD/LWD and well planning for deep horizontal wells in Eddy County and the Delaware Basin.
Geo Mag Technologies provides directional drilling services for operators in Carlsbad, New Mexico and the Delaware Basin. Eddy County is the western anchor of the New Mexico Permian, and the wells drilled from Carlsbad and Loving are among the deeper horizontal programs in the Permian.
Geo Mag supplies the mud motors, MWD tool and complete bottom hole assembly to drill a deviated well and provides well planning and technical consulting. Its tools and personnel mobilize from Broussard, Louisiana; the company is available anywhere in the United States.
- Region
- Delaware Basin
- County
- Eddy County, New Mexico
- Coverage
- Available for projects anywhere in the United States
- Mobilizes from
- Broussard, Louisiana
- Availability
- 24 Hours
At a glance
Deep horizontals in the Delaware Basin
The Delaware Basin is the deeper, western sub-basin of the Permian. Around Carlsbad the main horizontal targets are the Bone Spring and Wolfcamp intervals, with multiple stacked benches developed from the same pad and laterals that commonly reach two miles. Vertical depths are greater and pore pressures higher than in the Midland Basin, and drilling fluid is often oil-based.
Deeper wells, long laterals and oil-based mud each raise the bar for the downhole tools: temperature and pressure ratings, a resistivity measurement that works in oil-based mud, and a surface decoder that can still resolve a pulse after it has travelled a long way up the standpipe.
SourceRegional geology and development patterns are general public information about the basin, not Geo Mag claims. Geo Mag statements and manufacturer figures are attributed on the Technology page.
Capabilities matched to Eddy County wells
The wave propagation resistivity sub Geo Mag runs allows geosteering in both water-based and oil-based mud, in the company's words, and its manufacturer datasheet lists a 20,000 psi rating with a 347 F option. The Rime pulser is rated to 175 C and 20,000 psi, and the pressure-while-drilling tool gives real-time ECD to help manage the overbalance on a long lateral.
Geo Mag drills with Bico and Tomahawk mud motors, RSS, Key Drill drilling systems and complete BHA packages. At surface the KeyDrill KDU-Mini is rated by its manufacturer to detect pulses as low as 1 psi, and Polaris logs the data and pushes it to the operator WITSML server for remote monitoring.
Drilling systems: Bico and Tomahawk mud motors / RSS / Key Drill drilling systems / Complete bottom hole assembly (BHA) packages.
Full directional drilling serviceAll systems and specifications
Systems relevant to this region
Rime slick-hd servo pulser
Mud-pulse telemetry in high-solids and high-LCM environments
The pulser is the valve that writes downhole data into the mud column. Lost-circulation material, high solids, heat and pressure are what break pulsers; a valve that keeps clearing itself is what keeps the surveys coming.
PWD, annular pressure-while-drilling
Real-time downhole pressure and ECD
Annular pressure while drilling turns equivalent circulating density from a calculation into a measurement. It shows whether the hole is being cleaned, flags kicks and influxes early, and lets the overbalance be held tight without giving up rate of penetration.
Wave propagation resistivity (WPR) sub
Geosteering, correlation and wireline replacement
Propagation resistivity reads the formation around the bit in real time, so a lateral can be steered to stay in the target zone and casing points can be picked without waiting on a wireline run.
KeyDrill KDU-Mini decoding unit
Mud-pulse decoding at the rig floor
Every survey depends on the surface receiver separating a small pressure pulse from pump noise. Deeper wells and PDC bits distort the signal; the lower the pulse a decoder can resolve, the more of the well it can survey reliably.
SourceSystem roles from the Technology page; Geo Mag statements and manufacturer specifications are attributed there.
Areas served around Carlsbad
Geo Mag is available for directional drilling projects throughout Eddy County and the surrounding Delaware Basin, including wells staged from:
- Loving
- Artesia
- Malaga
- Hobbs
- Jal
- Orla, TX
- Pecos, TX
- Lea County
- Loving County, TX
- Reeves County, TX
- Culberson County, TX
Nearby service areas
SourceCoverage statement from the Geo Mag questionnaire: available anywhere in the United States; travel distance is not a limiting factor. Places listed are areas Geo Mag is available to work in, not offices or completed projects.
Directional drilling questions for Carlsbad
Yes. Carlsbad, Eddy County and the Delaware Basin are within Geo Mag's nationwide coverage. The company mobilizes from Broussard, Louisiana.
Discuss a Carlsbad drilling project.
Call or text (337) 278-4607, 24 hours. Or send a message through the contact form.