A walkthrough of the Clear Blue Sky oil well shows how drilling works from surface to 10,000 feet. At 5,500 feet, a downhole motor engages to drill horizontally. During fracking, high-pressure water pushes sand into cracks; when pressure drops, the sand stays put and keeps fractures open so oil flows naturally.
So this is the clear blue sky well. So there's your traveling block. So that lowers the pipe down. Now, once they get down to 10,000ft, and then they'll use a drill bit that runs off of the mud, so it has an impeller in it. So the mud is forced through the impeller and that turns you into the drill bit. So that's how they drill horizontally.
So the pipe on the sides tell you how much further to get to 10,000.
Right. So they're probably at about 5,500ft or 6,000ft.
So it's easier to. When we think of a normal well going down and hitting oil or hitting gas and then sucking out this way, when we go left to right, we're going to get a vein. Yeah. Stay in that vein and we can. It's a much more productive. Right, gotcha.
This is the first phase. This is the drilling phase. And then you have the second phase, which is the completion phase, and then you have the fracking. So first you'll pressure up on the rock, crack the rock, pump the water to the sand. Water is a carrying agent that carries the sand out into the cracks that you form. And then when they relieve the pressure, the sand stays out there as a propping agent. So the well will come back flowing naturally. And then once it stops flowing, they'll put a pump jack on it, and then they'll start pumping it with a regular pump jack.
