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                      PLANNING AND DRILLING


                         A DEVELOPMENT WELL


                                       OFFSHORE





                                            Overview


                    This chapter will tell in story form how a development well might be

                 drilled offshore through a template on the seabed (fig. 4–1). A development

                 well is drilled to produce hydrocarbons when a field is commercially exploited.

































                 Fig. 4–1. A 15-well template being lowered to the seabed
                                                Courtesy of Claxton, www.claxtonengineering.com.
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