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With the Orlan offshore platform, part of the Sakhalin-1 project, in the background, the winter waters of the Sea of Okhotsk become interlocked with flowing ice six feet thick.
Directional drilling
With the Orlan offshore platform, part of the Sakhalin-1 project, in the background, the winter waters of the Sea of Okhotsk become interlocked with flowing ice six feet thick.Today, wells can be drilled horizontally as well as vertically, beginning miles from the oil and gas they are intended to reach. This technology enables ExxonMobil to develop large resource areas from a single location, minimizing our impact on the environment. In Russia’s Far East, for example, we have been using directional drilling technology to reach oil and gas reserves six miles offshore Sakhalin Island.
