Horizontal well, coiled tubing, multilateral, underbalanced drilling, extended reach technologies as well as other emerging technologies have and are providing new tools for engineers. Economics and risk must be considered on the implementation of such new technologies within companies and the industry. Both economic and risk analysis should help management in making capital decisions which will enhance results and make the company more profitable, while monitoring actual results during the company's learning curve. Too often a one-time, high risk project view is taken within the company's ranks versus establishing new technology within the company with a longer term commitment. This paper will look at new technology implementation and ties to multilateral technology. The paper will forward concepts that a total system approach must be uses in multilateral technology application. One of the problems which will be discussed will be management of the parent hole to multilaterals which may or may not be completed for isolation purposes.