QUESTION: Can you recommend a website that explains how horizontal drilling works? For example, I’d like to know how BP, or whatever company did the drilling, was able to guide their drill bit in the relief well in the Gulf of Mexico disaster. It amazes me that they were able to guide that thing right to the location of the crippled well.
ANSWER: Following is a link from the North Dakota Division of Mineral Resources that is very good at explaining horizontal drilling. https://www.dmr.nd.gov/ndgs/newsletter/NL0308/pdfs/Horizontal.pdf
