Radial Drilling or Radial Jet Drilling (RJD) has been available for over 20 years, often promoted as a potential ‘step-change’ technology for the Oil & Gas industry. As countless RJD companies have come and gone, there has been lots of hype, claims made, court cases, and many failures, whilst at the same time many operators (big & small) around the world, have frankly wasted millions of dollars on some very poor technology. Throughout my ten years working in the industry, I have spoken to well over 200 operators, from all regions of the world, who have tried some variation of RJD on th ..read more