Reduce Drilling Costs and Environmental Impact Increase Reservoir Imaging Resolution and Real-time Data Acquisition These new technologies will support business models for: - Development of Shallow (5,000 ft) Currently Uneconomic Oil and Gas Resources (Current Solicitation focus). - Lower Drilling Costs result from reduced materials, labor and support equipment. - Lower Environmental Impact results from reduced drilling waste, smaller footprints, and increased transportability for remote, fragile terrains. Pad drilling allows extended wellbore reach without increased environmental risk. -New Economic Seismic Methodologies for Reservoir Imaging (Higher-risk work being conducted by the National Laboratories). - Decrease finding costs by proving exploration targets more economically. - High resolution real-time reservoir information from dedicated boreholes with permanently installed reservoir monitoring systems. Can monitor and optimize IOR processes for maximum recovery efficiency. - Control over data collection locations -Designer Seismic? concept allows data to be collected where and when it is needed rather than where production/injection wells have been drilled. - Minimum interruption of production while collecting reservoir data. - Low cost, miniature instrumentation using MEMS (Microelectromechanical) technologies. DOE's Microhole Technology Initiative is developing technologies that enable Coiled Tubing Drilling of 31/2-inch and less boreholes using small, portable coiled tubing drill rigs.