BHL Consulting services rest upon combined 18 years of first-hand, horizontal well experience in nine US states, Canada, Morocco, and Saudia Arabia in twelve different basins, drilling dozens of formations, for scores of clients in several hundred wells.

BHL’s consulting services span pre-drill planning, drilling operations, to post-drill interpretation and evaluation. Consultation is always approached with a practical mindset that most wells are not drilled so much to produce oil and gas, as they are to generate bottom-line profits. So client-specific thinking is central to everything we do.

In the pre-drill phase we can help identify geologic and operational risk factors, recommend wellpath configurations, evaluate suitability of the target rock for horizontal applications and suitability of overburden for drilling your curve, recommend MWD and LWD options, and generate realistic expectations for targeting and lateral length.

We’re not drilling engineers, but years of experience and a strong network of drilling professionals can be brought to bear whenever needed or requested.

During the drilling phase, we specialize in geosteering – also sometimes called “geo-navigation” – which simply means knowing where the bit is relative to the target rocks. An essential part of that analysis includes formation structure, e.g. formation dip, faulting, etc. Unlike some competitors, we actively watch for and report evidence of variable stratigraphy.

While-drilling analyses and reports are universally customized to the client’s needs. There is no one-size-fits-all geosteering at BHL.

And since effective horizontal drilling requires better than average communication between geology and drilling departments, we make ourselves available to the folks who need answers when they need them. It sounds obvious, but not everybody does it that way.

In the post-drill phase, our primary contribution is usually a clear answer to which rocks you drilled and what they showed us. Lacking that, there is simply no reliable way to plan completions, evaluate completion results, evaluate production, and anticipate economic results. This is especially true now, with the growing number of expensive horizontal frac jobs, the results of which can be heavily impacted by in-zone position and the presence of faults.

Finally, BHL does conduct in-office training for client geologists and engineers on the broader issues of horizontal drilling and particularly the geologic aspects. These have been conducted either as informal 1-3 hours talks or in the “lunch-and-learn” setting to this point. More in-depth training can be conducted at client’s request according to their specific needs.

Consulting rates are hourly, so wells that require little of our time cost our clients very little. The more challenging projects are given whatever time is necessary, but no more. At the end of an average well, BHL services typically amount to a few tenths of 1% of Completed Well Cost, but in every case we work hard to give clients the answers they need and want.

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