Directional Drilling in Farmington, New Mexico
Directional drilling and MWD/LWD for the San Juan Basin, from horizontal oil wells to directional gas and coalbed methane programs.
Geo Mag Technologies provides directional drilling services for operators in Farmington, New Mexico and the San Juan Basin. Farmington is the service center of the basin, which stretches across San Juan and Rio Arriba counties in New Mexico and into La Plata County, Colorado.
Geo Mag supplies the mud motors, MWD tool and complete bottom hole assembly needed to drill a deviated well and provides well planning and technical consulting. The company is based in Broussard, Louisiana and mobilizes to the Four Corners for projects; travel distance is not a limiting factor.
- Region
- San Juan Basin
- County
- San Juan County, New Mexico
- Coverage
- Available for projects anywhere in the United States
- Mobilizes from
- Broussard, Louisiana
- Availability
- 24 Hours
At a glance
A basin with more than one kind of well
The San Juan Basin has been a gas province for many decades, with production from the Dakota, the Mesaverde group, the Pictured Cliffs and the Fruitland coal. More recently operators have drilled horizontal oil and gas wells into the Mancos and Gallup intervals, and directional wells from pads remain common on the older gas programs where surface access is limited.
That variety means a directional provider here may be asked for a simple directional well one month and a long horizontal Mancos lateral the next. Much of the basin is federal or tribal land, so pad locations and surface constraints shape the trajectory, and gamma and resistivity on the lateral help land and hold the target.
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.
Geo Mag capabilities for San Juan Basin wells
Geo Mag's MWD tools assemble in the field and configure with gamma, resistivity and PWD, so the same equipment covers a directional gas well and a horizontal oil well. Its wave propagation resistivity sub allows geosteering in water-based or oil-based mud, and gamma runs in the same string.
Bico and Tomahawk mud motors, RSS, Key Drill drilling systems and complete BHA packages handle the drilling. Polaris logs the surveys and gamma and, in Geo Mag's words, gives the customer remote monitoring from anywhere on the network, which is useful when the operator's office is in Farmington or further away.
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
Positive-pulse MWD tool
Directional, gamma and resistivity configurations
The MWD tool is the instrument that tells the directional driller where the bit is and where it is heading. Survey and tool-face data come up the mud column as pressure pulses, so the trajectory can be corrected while drilling instead of after a trip.
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.
Polaris RDS logging system
Gamma and directional data logging with remote monitoring
The logging system is where surveys, gamma and drilling parameters become the well record: plots, LAS files and reports the operator keeps, and a live feed the office can watch without being on location.
SourceSystem roles from the Technology page; Geo Mag statements and manufacturer specifications are attributed there.
Areas served around Farmington
Geo Mag is available for directional drilling projects across the San Juan Basin, including work staged from:
- Aztec
- Bloomfield
- Kirtland
- Shiprock
- Lybrook
- Counselor
- Rio Arriba County
- Durango, CO
- La Plata County, CO
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 Farmington
Yes. The San Juan Basin is within Geo Mag's nationwide coverage. Tools and personnel mobilize from Broussard, Louisiana.
Discuss a Farmington drilling project.
Call or text (337) 278-4607, 24 hours. Or send a message through the contact form.