Technical Papers, Media Coverage, Magazine Stories, Presentations, etc.

2010 January
Coil Over (Seas)
- reproduced with permission from Nickle's New Technology Magazine, January/ February 2010, page 8

2009 Aug 19
Dual Purpose COTD™ Rigs Establish New Operational Records (9-page PDF 200k)
presented by Tom Wood to
2009 Drilling Engineering Association Workshop (“Unconventional Solutions for Unconventional Times”) hosted by the IADC in Houston, TX on 2009 Aug 19

2009 June 17
Innovative Drilling Rig Delivers Increased Drilling Performance in Permian Basin
presented to
IADC World Drilling Conference 2009 in Dublin
by J. Gregory Nutter and Reg Layden, Xtreme Coil Drilling; Cody Grasmick and Don Eubank, XTO Energy

Abstract
Wells have been drilled in the Permian Basin since the 1920s, and drilling activity continues there today. For an upcoming drilling campaign in 2008, one producer looked to improve penetration rates and reduce overall well construction costs by implementing new and innovative technologies. The standard drilling rig was replaced with an innovative drilling rig package combining both a full top drive rotary rig and a coiled tubing drilling rig into one rig package.

Text of presentation - 9-page PDF 205k
Handout - 11-page PDF 242k

IADC WDC 2009 conference program

2009 June
Nickle's New Technology Magazine article
Pushing The Limits
(4-page PDF 445k, reproduced with permission)

2009 February 3
Xtreme Coil finalist in Alberta Export Awards

2008 February
World Oil article
"Coiled tubing drilling reaches new depths"
Fig.1 photo is Xtreme's Rig #1 drilling in Canada

2007 November
Xtreme featured in Nickle's New Technology Magazine
Warming Up to Coil
(3-page PDF 276k, reproduced with permission)

2007 June 27
Tenaris Coiled Tubes Reach New Depths
from Tenaris website, reproduced with permission

2007 June
Xtreme featured on the cover of The Roughneck magazine
(subscriber password needed)

2007 June
Xtreme featured in Nickle's New Technology Magazine
EXTREME COIL: Coil Over Top Drive Rigs Carry Canadian Contractor To Onshore Drilling Records In U.S. Rockies
(2-page PDF 332k, reproduced with permission)

2007 January
Xtreme Coil mentioned in Scandinavian Oil-Gas Magazine Online, December 13, 2006
Xtreme Coil is discussed near the end of the article in the paragraph beginning "The project's initial success ...".)
'Microhole' Drilling Rig demonstrated successfully in Midcontinent

2006 December
Coiled tubing drilling goes deeper
by Tom Wood,
Xtreme Coil Drilling Corp.
Cover story in December 2006 issue of
E&P Magazine, A Hart Energy Publication

2006 December 12
Anadarko Analyst Conference - U.S. Onshore
featured photos of Xtreme's rigs on pages 24 and 28 of the presentation. (Opens in new window.)

Anadarko Vice President Jim Kleckner, in his presentation entitled Rocky Mountain Powerhouse, mentions Anadarko's use of coil drilling when discussing the Greater Wattenberg Area – slide 24. It is at 15 minutes into the presentation (Windows Media audio).

Here is a transcript of his comments:

"We’re in the process of testing an exciting new drilling technology as pictured in this inset. This is a coil tubing drilling rig that has been successfully utilized in shallower fields throughout Canada. Anadarko has one coil rig operating in the Powder and another rig, commissioned just last week, in the DJ Basin. So we’ll be testing the new technology to determine the effectiveness of drilling with coil at deeper depths ... and subject to the results of the tests are in position to contract more of these type of rigs to further accelerate the program ... and, as you can see, by adding one additional rig per year starting in 2008 we’ll be able to increase our CAGR from 3 to 5%."