In-Field Referencing (IFR) technology has been applied in directional drilling since at least the early 2000s. Being particularly useful for drilling tightly spaced lateral wellbores, there’s a been a recent surge in demand for this technology, hence requiring more MWD service providers to work with IFR surveys.
IFR surveys has been supported in Mezintel Gamma logging software since 2013, so customers have been able to handle this demand fine. And with increased usage came requests for features and improvements. This article provides an overview of these improvements, but before doing so… what are IFR surveys?
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